Her slender throat was encircled by a black riband, with a small locket attached to it; and upon the top of her head rested a diminutive lace cap.
The room in which she sat was a portion of the garret, assigned, as we have just stated, by Mr.Wood as a play-room to the two boys; and, like most boy's playrooms, it exhibited a total absence of order, or neatness.

Things were thrown here and there, to be taken up, or again cast aside, as the whim arose; while the broken-backed chairs and crazy table bore the marks of many a conflict.

The characters of the youthful occupants of the room might be detected in every article it contained.
Darell's peculiar bent of mind was exemplified in a rusty broadsword, a tall grenadier's cap, a musket without lock or ramrod, a belt and cartouch-box, with other matters evincing a decided military taste.
Among his books, Plutarch's Lives, and the Histories of Great Commanders, appeared to have been frequently consulted; but the dust had gathered thickly upon the Carpenter's Manual, and a Treatise on Trigonometry and Geometry.

Beneath the shelf, containing these books, hung the fine old ballad of '_St.George for England_' and a loyal ditty, then much in vogue, called '_True Protestant Gratitude, or, Britain's Thanksgiving for the First of August, Being the Day of His Majesty's Happy Accession to the Throne_.' Jack Sheppard's library consisted of a few ragged and well-thumbed volumes abstracted from the tremendous chronicles bequeathed to the world by those Froissarts and Holinsheds of crime--the Ordinaries of Newgate.

His vocal collection comprised a couple of flash songs pasted against the wall, entitled '_The Thief-Catcher's Prophecy_,' and the '_Life and Death of the Darkman's Budge_;' while his extraordinary mechanical skill was displayed in what he termed (Jack had a supreme contempt for orthography,) a '_Moddle of his Ma^{s}.