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She was silent for a space, and it was evident that this part of the story was
still too painful to be recalled with ease. I didn’t dream, not even in my wildest
dreaming, that—you might have any need of me. "
With this assurance, and at the reiterated request of Thames, the little girl
reluctantly withdrew. She had been married four times: three of
her husbands died of hempen fevers; and the fourth, having been twice
condemned, was saved from the noose by Jonathan Wild, who not only managed
to bring him off, but to obtain for him the situation of under-turnkey in Newgate. So Ruth
took another step toward her destination, which we in our vanity call destiny. They had escaped from the New
Prison, it is true; but the wall of Clerkenwell Bridewell, by which that jail was
formerly surrounded, and which was more than twenty feet high, and protected
by formidable and bristling chevaux de frise, remained to be scaled.
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