CHAPTER XVII
After the Ten Commandments have been spoken, conscience becomes less
something inherent than something acquired. The very sight of these impediments, would have appalled a less
courageous spirit than Sheppard's—but nothing could daunt him. Ann Veronica tried to keep hold of a
complicated situation and not lose her head. "What will you do?" asked Thames. I have a different game to play; and it'll be your own fault, if you don't
come off the winner. "No Blueskin, I perceive, Sir," he observed, in a deferential tone, as Wild entered
the Lodge. Gosse, if he had any sense, would immediately seek out the
Remenham lawyers. "
"I'd rather lie here for ever, than be indebted to you for my freedom," returned
Thames. ‘It is
not possible. Paris is not the place for two young girls. She was supposed to be reading at home,
and after breakfast she strolled into the vegetable garden, and having taken up a
position upon the staging of a disused greenhouse that had the double advantage
of being hidden from the windows of the house and secure from the sudden
appearance of any one, she resumed the reading of Mr. How Jack Sheppard was taken to Westminster Hall
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XXX. "
Hastening from this heart-rending spectacle, Jack soon reached the grating that
divided the men's compartment from that appropriated to the women. .
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