I am on my way to an aunt who lives in Hartford,
Connecticut. "
"I'll take my chance," replied Jonathan, with a sinister smile. She was writhing
to get her hands loose and found herself gasping with passionate violence, “It’s
damnable!—damnable!” to the manifest disgust of the fatherly policeman on her
right. ”
He stared at her, trying to guess at the mystery of her thoughts. Ruth sighed; Spurlock stood up and drew his hand
across his forehead as if awakening from a dream. In
consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security
afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at
the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the
metropolis. Perhaps that was the reason why she
enjoyed preparing suppers at the Becks. Above was a spacious hall,
connected with it by a flight of stone steps, at the further end of which stood an
immense grated door, called in the slang of the place "The Jigger," through the
bars of which the felons in the upper wards were allowed to converse with their
friends, or if they wished to enter the room, or join the revellers below, they were
at liberty to do so, on payment of a small fine.
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