Category: Historical Novels
_“Upon my word, friend,” said I, “you have almost made me long to try what a robber I should make.” “There is a great art in it, if you did,” quoth he. “Ah! but,” said I, “there's a great deal in being hanged.”_
Nearly nine years after the events last recorded, and about the middle of May, 1724, a young man of remarkably prepossessing appearance took his way, one afternoon, along Wych S...
13. CHAPTER V. THE DISGUISE.In a hollow in the meadows behind the prison whence Jack Sheppard had escaped,--for, at this time, the whole of the now thickly-peopled district north of Clerkenwell Bridewell w...
18. CHAPTER X. HOW JACK SHEPPARD GOT OUT OF THE CONDEMNED HOLD.Monday, the 31st of August 1724,--a day long afterwards remembered by the officers of Newgate,--was distinguished by an unusual influx of visitors to the Lodge. On that morning...
2. CHAPTER XIII. THE MAGDALENE.The household of the worthy carpenter, it may be conceived, was thrown into the utmost confusion and distress by the unaccountable disappearance of the two boys. As time wore on...
16. CHAPTER VIII. OLD BEDLAM.When Thames Darrell and Jack Sheppard sprang through the window, they were instantly assailed by Wild, Trenchard, and their attendants. Jack attacked Jonathan with such fury, th...
5. CHAPTER XVI. JONATHAN WILD'S HOUSE IN THE OLD BAILEY.Just as St. Sepulchre's church struck one, on the eventful night of the 10th of June, (to which it will not be necessary to recur,) a horseman, mounted on a powerful charger, an...
17. CHAPTER IX. OLD NEWGATE.At the beginning of the twelfth century,--whether in the reign of Henry the First, or Stephen is uncertain,--a fifth gate was added to the four principal entrances of the city o...
6. CHAPTER XVII. THE NIGHT-CELLAR.After a few minutes' rapid walking, during which neither party uttered a word, Jonathan Wild and his companion had passed Saint Paul's, dived down a thoroughfare on the right, a...
3. CHAPTER XIV. THE FLASH KEN.In an incredibly short space of time,--for her anxiety lent wings to her feet,--Mrs. Sheppard reached the debtor's garrison. From a scout stationed at the northern entrance, who...
15. CHAPTER VII. JACK SHEPPARD WARNS THAMES DARRELL.On the following night--namely Monday,--the family assembled together, for the first time since the fatal event, in the chamber to which Thames had been introduced on his arriva...
7. CHAPTER XVIII. HOW JACK SHEPPARD BROKE OUT OF THE CAGE AT WILLESDEN.The heart-piercing scream uttered by Mrs. Sheppard after the commission of the robbery in Willesden church was productive of unfortunate consequences to her son. Luckily, she wa...
14. CHAPTER VI. WINIFRED RECEIVES TWO PROPOSALS.The tragical affair at Dollis Hill, it need scarcely be said, was a dreadful blow to the family. Mr. Wood bore up with great fortitude against the shock, attended the inquest, d...
10. CHAPTER II. THE BURGLARY AT DOLLIS HILL.Thames Darrell's fears were not, however, groundless. Danger, in the form he apprehended, was lurking outside: nor was he destined to enjoy long repose. On receiving the warning...
12. CHAPTER IV. JACK SHEPPARD'S ESCAPE FROM THE NEW PRISON.In consequence of Jack Sheppard's desperate character, it was judged expedient by the keeper of the New Prison to load him with fetters of unusual weight, and to place him in a...
11. CHAPTER III. JACK SHEPPARD'S QUARREL WITH JONATHAN WILD.Scarcely an hour after the horrible occurrence just related, as Jonathan Wild was seated in the audience-chamber of his residence at the Old Bailey, occupied, like Peachum, (for...
4. CHAPTER XV. THE ROBBERY IN WILLESDEN CHURCH.During the whole of the next day and night, the poor widow hovered like a ghost about the precincts of the debtors' garrison,--for admission (by the Master's express orders,) wa...
8. CHAPTER XIX. GOOD AND EVIL.As Jack opened the gate, and crossed the little garden, which exhibited in every part the neatness and attention of its owner, he almost trembled at the idea of further disturbi...
1. Volume II. (of III.)_“Upon my word, friend,” said I, “you have almost made me long to try what a robber I should make.” “There is a great art in it, if you did,” quoth he. “Ah! but,” said I, “there...