Before or after?”
Lucy paled. ’
‘How can you say so?’ protested Melusine. She could tell that he was
leering at her. And as he gave back the portfolio to Sir Rowland he contrived, unobserved, to
slip the precious document into his sleeve, and from thence into his pocket. ’
‘But it is imbecile,’ interrupted Melusine, struck by the impracticalities of her
father’s scheme. I suppose most of our daughters would marry
organ-grinders if they had a chance—at that age. You do not understand, and
you would like to. As she went on, the story began to sound more and more like a recitation. —"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.
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