. But that title
he would not endure. —"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. A woman touched him lightly on the arm, and
smiled into his face. The young
lady—if she had come in here at all—had vanished. I
always thought that I could find and destroy all of her
children, but there was no keeping up with it. Drawing the pay of life and then not
living. ’
Colour suffused the man’s face. As a matter of fact I have been waiting for you. ‘So I shall
do so. ‘Say it. But if I were dying of thirst, in a desert, I would not accept
a cup of water at her hands.
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