Any financial return was inconsiderable against the promise of this psychological treat. Thames sat with Winifred's hand clasped in his own, and commenced a recital of his adventures, which may be briefly told. Kneebone, and feeling certain of capturing him if he did so, Shotbolt, on quitting Newgate, hurried to the New Prison to prepare for the enterprise. An unhappy little sigh escaped her. No fear o' that. He succeeded so well that they were almost in Montague Street before Anna stopped short. "What's the matter?" he cried. She was dressed as English girls do dress for town, without either coquetry or harshness: her collarless blouse confessed a pretty neck, her eyes were bright and steady, and her dark hair waved loosely and graciously over her ears. Rushing towards the entrance of the well-hole, Blueskin touched the secret spring. The party resolved itself for Ann Veronica into a game in which she manoeuvred unostentatiously and finally unsuccessfully to avoid talking alone with this gentleman. “How dared you do yourself this injustice?” “I did it for her sake,” she answered. "He is," replied a portly personage, arrayed in a gorgeous yellow brocade dressing-gown, lined with cherry-coloured satin, and having a crimson velvet cap, surmounted by a gold tassel, on his head. ‘For instance, why have you reverted to your nun’s habit for this particular adventure?’ ‘That is easy. If you had arrived ten minutes later, or if there hadn't been an iron bar in the chimney, that hindered my progress, I should have been beyond your reach. One reason, perhaps, of his success in this case might be, that having arrested his associate in the dark transaction, Sir Rowland Trenchard, on a charge of high treason, he was favoured by Walpole, who found his account in retaining such an agent.
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