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Title: Life on the road : or, Claude, Turpin, and Jack, being a complete account of the most daring adventures of the notorious highwaymen, Claude Duval, Dick Turpin, and Sixteen-string Jack
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Robert M. De Witt (Firm), publisher
Subjects: Penny dreadfuls
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Robert M. De Witt
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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ovided with every requisite for comfort. The Jew closed thedoor after them, and then in the style of an Eastern monarch summoninghis slaves, he clapped his hands thrice together, upon which an old womanmade her appearance, and with great demonstration of respect, awaited thecommands of Zadoc, who she evidently looked upon as some very superiorbeing. Esther, said Zadoc, -may we trespass upon your larder for a breakfastthis morning ? These are friends of mine. The old woman made no reply in words, but by a very low and reverentialobeisance, she signified with what perfect submission she received the order,and how willing she was to execute it. She then went hastily away againthrough the door she had arrived by. You have a willing servant, said Claude. She is a member of my own family, replied Zadoc. I beg your pardon then, for naming her in connexion with anything likeservitude. Do not fancy that it is any ofience. Esther and I belong to the same mCK TURPIK, AND SlSTEEN-STRING JACK. 451
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The Officials preparing Turpin for Execution. race. She serves me for love, and I am but too happy to be able to makeher old age comfortable. Step this way, and you will soon see, unless I amvery much mistaken, and we have happened to take Esther more thanusually at unawares, that she can manage to get up an extemporaneousbreakfast that need not be despised. Jack and Claude followed the Jew into a very pretty apartment of thecottage; as they did so, they could but exchange looks of surprise, for sincecrossing his own threshold the whole manner of Zadoc had altered, and therewas an elevation of style and manner about him, such as they could hardlyhave expected. Claude knew, however, quite enough of the singular and highly interest-ing people to whom Zadoc belonged, scarcely to wonder at any strangetransformation of character that took place with them in their own housesin distinction to their appearance abroad among the Gentiles. The room in which they now were was a pretty one, with l

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