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Jack Sheppard

CHAPTER VII
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Oh! that I should have nursed such a viper!" "Hear me, Sir," said Jack.
"No, I won't hear you, murderer," rejoined Wood.
"I am no murderer," replied Sheppard.

"I had no thought of injuring your wife, and would have died rather than commit so foul a crime." "Think not to delude me, audacious wretch," cried the carpenter.

"Even if you are not a principal, you are an accessory.

If you had not brought your companion here, it would not have happened.

But you shall swing, rascal,--you shall swing." "My conscience acquits me of all share in the offence," replied Jack, humbly.


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