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Catching hold of his chin,
he bent back the neck, while with his left hand he pulled out a clasp knife, which
he opened with his teeth, and grasping Wild's head with his arm, notwithstanding
his resistance, cut deeply into his throat. I should require you to accept no employment whatever upon the
stage, and to remain out of England. She waited expectantly. "What is it?"
"Can't you see? Together, down there; you and I!… As my wife!
Both of us, never to be lonely again!… Will you marry me, Ruth?"
As many a wiser woman had done, Ruth mistook thrilling eagerness for love. The island had evidently grown round this lagoon,
approached it gradually from the volcanic upheaval—an island of coral and lava. I
overheard Jonathan Wild's instructions to Quilt Arnold, and though he spoke in
slang, and in an under tone, my quick ears, and acquaintance with the thieves'
lingo, enabled me to make out every word he uttered. And immediately
afterwards the curtain was drawn aside, and disclosed the Satanic countenance of
Jonathan Wild, who had crept into the house unperceived, "I'll tell you, why he
can't go back to his master," cried the thief-taker, with a malignant grin. Gay, the poet, who wrote the 'Captives,' which was lately acted at
Drury Lane, and was so much admired by the Princess of Wales. Suddenly she thrust her head out of the window. "
"I'm sorry. Satisfied in this respect, he flung himself into a
chair, for his iron frame seldom required the indulgence of a bed, and sought an
hour's repose before he began the villanies of another day.
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