She realized in a moment
what had happened. “That’s the point. "My son," she murmured, wringing her hands piteously—, "my son the
companion of thieves! My son in Jonathan Wild's power! It cannot be. "Do you think I'd part with
the sweetest morsel of revenge on those terms? No! But I'll have the secret out of
you by other means. I had
special ways of getting out of the basement without them
noticing, and often I could smuggle a child or two out for
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the day and they were never the wiser. It was
lent me by a countryman o' mine; but I paid him back in his own coin—ha! ha!"
"A countryman of yours, Terry?"
"Ay, and a noble one, too, Quilt—more's the pity! You've heard of the Marquis
of Slaughterford, belike?"
"Of course; who has not? He's the leader of the Mohocks, the general of the
Scourers, the prince of rakes, the friend of the surgeons and glaziers, the terror of
your tribe, and the idol of the girls!"
"That's him to a hair?" cried Terence, rapturously. 192
Her skirt had ridden almost to her hips. ‘What has that to say to anything?’
‘Nothing at all,’ smiled Lucy nervously. She is more dear to me than anything else. ’
Melusine sat slowly down again, looking him over thoughtfully.
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