Over the chimney-piece was pasted a handbill, purporting to be "The last Dying Speech and Confession of TOM SHEPPARD, the Notorious Housebreaker, who suffered at Tyburn on the 25th of February, 1703. ‘Now I see why you’re marrying this woman, Hilary. Out of the beaten track! He must not appear too eager. “If you interfere between us,” the man said, “it will go hardly with you. It seemed that within an instant the Pestilence struck, and she begged me on her deathbed to shelter you and her grandson for the rest of your lives, as she could see that even though I was a ‘demon fiend’ and ‘minor devil’ that I loved you. And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his inclinations. ‘It is the life I know. So he dashed himself from the highest turret of the castle he had made to the rocks below!” “Lucy, open the door, it’s me, Martin. His heir is dead, yes, and his name and title available to me. ” He passed his hand wearily over his forehead. "Had I not been the guilty wretch I am," he cried, bursting into an agony of tears, "she would never have died thus. ” Ann Veronica hesitated, and then stood in the open doorway and regarded her father’s stern presence.
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