Her new husband was pleased to watch the astonished
look on her face as tray after tray appeared on the grand
table, each better than the next. You shall have a house out at Balham or
Sydenham, and two servants. While this took place, while Quilt thundered at the inner door, and Jack drew
back the bolts of the outer, a deep, manly voice was heard chanting—as if in
contempt of the general uproar—the following strain:—
With pipe and punch upon the board,
And smiling nymphs around us;
No tavern could more mirth afford
Than old Saint Giles's round-house!
The round-house! the round-house!
The jolly—jolly round-house!
"The jolly, jolly round-house!" chorussed Sheppard, as the last bar yielded to his
efforts. “We have come too close together for
me to believe it. "My God! will you see your child strangled before your eyes, and not so much
as scream for help?" said Wood, staring at the widow with a look of surprise and
horror. ToC
Jonathan Wild, meanwhile, had quitted the house. This was the first young man who had
drawn from her something more than speculative interest. "If you are in earnest, Thames," she replied, with a look of gentle reproach, "you
are very foolish; and, if in jest, very cruel. “Not to-night,” she said. There were no evidences of any struggle, no overturned chairs or disarranged
furniture.
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