Volume 2 — A Romance
Reading edition
By W. Harrison Ainsworth
1839
“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.
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS:
CHAPTER XIII. THE MAGDALENE.
CHAPTER XIV. THE FLASH KEN.
CHAPTER XV. THE ROBBERY IN WILLESDEN CHURCH.
CHAPTER XVI. JONATHAN WILD'S HOUSE IN THE OLD BAILEY.
CHAPTER XVII. THE NIGHT-CELLAR.
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW JACK SHEPPARD BROKE OUT OF THE CAGE AT WILLESDEN.
CHAPTER XIX. GOOD AND EVIL.
EPOCH THE THIRD, THE PRISON-BREAKER, 1724.
CHAPTER I. THE RETURN.
CHAPTER II. THE BURGLARY AT DOLLIS HILL.
CHAPTER III. JACK SHEPPARD'S QUARREL WITH JONATHAN WILD.
CHAPTER IV. JACK SHEPPARD'S ESCAPE FROM THE NEW PRISON.
CHAPTER V. THE DISGUISE.
CHAPTER VI. WINIFRED RECEIVES TWO PROPOSALS.
CHAPTER VII. JACK SHEPPARD WARNS THAMES DARRELL.
CHAPTER VIII. OLD BEDLAM.
CHAPTER IX. OLD NEWGATE.
CHAPTER X. HOW JACK SHEPPARD GOT OUT OF THE CONDEMNED HOLD.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece: Jack Shepard committing the Robbery in Willesden Church
Jack Sheppard gets drunk, and orders his Mother off
Jack Sheppard's escape from Willesden Cage
Mrs. Sheppard expostulating with her Son
Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr.Wood's Bedroom
Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess escaping from Clerkenwell Prison
Jack Sheppard escaping from the Condemned Hold in Newgate