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Jack Sheppard

CHAPTER X
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We're all safe!" "Don't lose a moment then," cried Jack, forcing himself into the aperture, while the Amazon, assisted by Bess, pulled him through it.
"There!" cried Mrs.Maggot, as she placed him without noise upon the ground; "you're safe so far." "Come, my disconsolate darlings," cried Austin, "it only wants five minutes to six.

I expect Mr.Wild here presently.

Cut it as short as you can." "Only two minutes more, Sir," intreated Edgeworth Bess, advancing towards him in such a manner as to screen Jack, who crept into the farthest part of the angle,--"only two minutes, and we've done." "Well, well, I'm not within a minute," rejoined the turnkey.
"We shall never be able to get you out unseen, Jack," whispered Poll Maggot.

"You must make a bold push." "Impossible," replied Sheppard, in the same tone.

"That would be certain destruction.


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