After a while, he raised his eyes; and, if their glance could have been witnessed at the moment, it could not have been easily forgotten. "With the help of his comrade, Jack Sheppard, the young rascal made a bold push to get out of the round-house, where my janizaries had lodged him, and would have succeeded too, if, by good luck,—for the devil never deserts so useful an agent as I am, Sir Rowland,—I hadn't arrived in time to prevent him. I have an engagement with a theatrical agent—I believe for the ‘Unusual’. "But calm yourself, dear sister, or the interview will be too much for you. To win the contest meant you would be chosen to apprentice in magic as a priest under her tutelage. "To be sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his poor father suffered. Well, while we were smoking our pipes, and quaffing our punch, Alsatia turns to me and says, 'Mint,' says he, 'you're well off here. "I guessed what was coming. Later, there will be fever, after I've got his heart pumping.
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