—"A
famous university," observes Ned Ward, in the London Spy, "where, if a man has
a mind to educate a hopeful child in the daring science of padding; the lightfingered subtlety of shoplifting: the excellent use of jack and crow; for the
silently drawing bolts, and forcing barricades; with the knack of sweetening; or
the most ingenious dexterity of picking pockets; let him but enter in this college
on the Common Side, and confine him close to his study but for three months;
and if he does not come out qualified to take any degree of villainy, he must be
the most honest dunce that ever had the advantage of such eminent tutors. ‘What was you wanting it for,
may I ask?’
‘You may not ask, for it is none of your affair,’ Melusine snapped. "
"You are interested?"
"In a way, naturally. ”
“I have no idea what it costs to live in London,” Anna said, “but I should like
very much to come for a short time if I might. Look somewhere else in life. I could tell it was Italian, you see. But that explains everything. “I see nothing of my sister,” she said. But you shall swing, rascal,—you shall
swing. I would
have liked to know. Drawing the pay of life and then not
living. "
At luncheon, preoccupied in thought, Spurlock did not notice the pallor on
Ruth's cheeks or the hunted look in her eyes.
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