“Yes?”
“You remember once, how we talked—at a gate on the Downs? We talked
about how a girl might get an independent living. She knew
that in her new rôle she was as likely as not to be a rank failure. ’
‘Willingly?’
‘Parbleu, what a person you think me. "And when I further tell you," continued Jack, "that, after yourself and my
mother, I am the next heir to the estates of my grandfather, Sir Montacute
Trenchard, you will perhaps own that my caution is sufficiently disinterested. Sir Rowland waved his hand, and the
attendant withdrew. "If I am the devil," observed Wild, "as some folks assert, and I myself am not
unwilling to believe, you'll find that I differ from the generally-received notions
of the arch-fiend, and faithfully execute the commands of those who confide
their souls to my custody. His eyes never
left her face. "
"Do you happen to know Jonathan Wild, master?" inquired Jack, altering his
tone, and assuming a more respectful demeanour. White leaned forward in her chair with an anxious smile designed to throw
oil upon the troubled waters. Before there is any change, any real change, I shall be dead—dead—dead and
finished—two hundred years!.
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