Mother! do you know what you do?
Would you sell yourself to this fiend ?" "I would sell myself, body and soul, to save you," rejoined his mother, bursting from his grasp.
Jonathan caught her in his arms.
"Come away!" he cried, with the roar of a demon.
This laugh and his looks alarmed her.
"It _is_ the fiend!" she exclaimed, recoiling.

"Save me!--save me!" "Damnation!" vociferated Jonathan, savagely.

"We've no time for any Bedlam scenes now.

Come along, you mad jade.

I'll teach you submission in time." With this, he endeavoured to force her off; but, before he could accomplish his purpose, he was arrested, and his throat seized by Jack.
In the struggle, Mrs.Sheppard broke from him, and filled the room with her shrieks.
"I'll now pay the debt I owe you," cried Jack, tightening his grip till the thief-taker blackened in the face.
"Dog!" cried Wild, freeing himself by a powerful effort, and dealing Jack a violent blow with the heavy bludgeon, which knocked him backwards, "you are not yet a match for Jonathan Wild.