You've heard the news, I suppose ?" "That the death warrant's arrived," returned Edgeworth Bess, bursting into a flood of tears; "oh, yes! we've heard it." "How does Jack bear it ?" inquired Mrs.Maggot.
"Like a hero," answered Austin.
"I knew he would," replied the Amazon.

"Come Bess,--no whimpering.

Don't unman him.

Are we to see him here ?" "Yes, my love." "Well, then, lose no time in bringing him to us," said Mrs.Maggot.
"There's a guinea to drink our health," she added, slipping a piece of money into his hand.
"Here, Caliban," shouted the under-turnkey, "unlock Captain Sheppard's padlock, and tell him his wives are in the Lodge waiting to see him." "Iss, Massa Austin," replied the black.

And taking the keys, he departed on the errand.
As soon as he was gone, the two women divested themselves of their hoods and cloaks, and threw them, as if inadvertently, into the farthest part of the angle in the wall.