Identifier: lifeonroadorclau00robe (find matches)
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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nd the cocks from the roost gave clear and shrill noticeof the break of day. He looked upon the dark forms of the houses, many of them much alike,but yet he could not well distinguish them quickly, for the light not beingyet strong, he could see those best whose forms soared high and stood inrelief against the sun, which was each moment becoming stronger. Claude Duval had a tolerably fair recollection of the house, in at the win-dow of which he had been received by his sister, on that most eventful morn-ing when he had been so daring as to shake hands with Six teen-string Jackand he looked out sharply for it. Still there were so many houses alike that he might have been rather puz-zled but for one circumstance, and that was his observing fluttering from oneof the windows of a house a white handkerchief. That is it, he said, May has adopted such a mode of making her houseknown to me without fear of mistake, and that white emblem is significatory DICK TURPIN, AND SIXTEEN-STRING JACK. 65
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of the innocence and purity of the dwellers in that house. Yes, I will at anyrisk do what is right, He halted at the door of the house, and as he cast his eyes up to the win-dow he saw the handkerchief suddenly removed. May sees me, he said ; the poor girl has been upon the watch. Then, as some new thought came across his mind, he knit his brows andmuttered,— Does she love this Markham Brereton 1 He then strove to recollect every look and every tone of hers while she hadbeen speaking of the brother of Cicely, in order to see if he could come to aconclusion with regard to this new idea of his, but he could not take uponhimself to say that he had absolutely seen or heard anything that gave acolor to it. I will say nothing to her on the subject, he thought, until I know morethan I do now concerning it. At this moment the door of the house opened, and May, covered up in » 5 66 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF CLAUDE DUVAL, gray cloak, so that no one not very intimate with her appearance could ha

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