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Jack Sheppard

CHAPTER V
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'Slife! you are wonderfully altered.

I should scarcely have known you." The knight was indeed greatly changed.

Though not much passed the middle term of life, he seemed prematurely stricken with old age.

His frame was wasted, and slightly bent; his eyes were hollow, his complexion haggard, and his beard, which had remained unshorn during his hasty journey, was perfectly white.

His manner, however, was as stern and haughty as ever, and his glances retained their accustomed fire.
"I did not come hither to consult you as to the state of my health, Sir," he observed, displeased by Jonathan's allusion to the alteration in his appearance.
"True," replied Wild.


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