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Jack Sheppard

CHAPTER XIV
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I don't ask you to supply my place--for that is, perhaps, impossible.

But, be like a son to her." "Do not doubt me," replied Thames, warmly pressing his hand.
"And now, I've one further request," faltered Jack; "though I scarcely know how to make it.

It is to set me right with Winifred.

Do not let her think worse of me than I deserve,--or even so ill.

Tell her, that more than once, when about to commit some desperate offence, I have been restrained by her gentle image.


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