Over the chimney-piece was pasted a handbill, purporting to be "The last Dying Speech and Confession of TOM SHEPPARD, the Notorious Housebreaker, who suffered at Tyburn on the 25th of February, 1703. I thought every one had heard about it. Go and live somewhere else. ‘Why do you stand there? Take him up, and bring him out at once. It’s a world in which the law can be a stupid pig and the police-stations dirty dens. If there was such a thing as love at first sight, these two must epitomise it. Towards this box Sharples directed his steps, and, unlocking a hatch in the door, disclosed a recess scarcely as large, and certainly not as clean, as a dog-kennel. ’ ‘So I heard. This was not the sort of confession which he had been expecting. The lady looked them over in silence, and then pouting lips trembled, dark eyelashes fluttered, and in a broken voice, she pleaded, ‘Honoured messieurs, you will not allow this—this pig, to be thus cruel? He cannot arrest me.
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