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Title: Jack Sheppard
A Romance

Author: William Harrison Ainsworth

Release Date: July 6, 2005 [EBook #16215]

Language: English

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English Library

_VOL. XII_

JACK SHEPPARD A Romance

BY W. Harrison Ainsworth

Internationale Bibliothek G M B H Berlin

1922

"Upon my word, friend," said I, "you have almost made me long to try
what a robber I should make." "There is a great art in it, if you did,"
quoth he. "Ah! but," said I, "there's a great deal in being hanged."

_Life and Actions of Guzman d'Alfarache._

Printed In Germany

CONTENTS.

EPOCH THE FIRST, 1703.
JONATHAN WILD.

CHAPTER I. The Widow and her Child 1
II. The Old Mint 13
III. The Master of the Mint 28
IV. The Roof and the Window 34
V. The Denunciation 42
VI. The Storm 51
VII. Old London Bridge 63

EPOCH THE SECOND, 1715.
THAMES DARRELL.

CHAPTER I. The Idle Apprentice 75
II. Thames Darrell 88
III. The Jacobite 95
IV. Mr. Kneebone and his Friends 99
V. Hawk and Buzzard 103
VI. The first Step towards the Ladder 119
VII. Brother and Sister 131
VIII. Miching Mallecho 135
IX. Consequences of the Theft 147
X. Mother and Son