—"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. " "She? My God, the pity of it! She knows nothing of life. ‘I’ll make you an offer. O'Higgins returned to town and made a night of it, nothing very wild, nothing very desperate. "Come along, Blueskin. She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself. \"Look at how fair he is! The Lord has blessed Isobella with a fine son. The primitive superstition of his Puritan forbears was his; and before this the buckler of his education disintegrated. But, though the latter was somewhat embarrassed by his burthen, he peremptorily declined Jonathan's offer of assistance. But you must see her alone; and that'll be no easy matter to manage, for she's a great invalid, and has generally somebody with her. In consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the metropolis. “The horse’s knees are broken, and I am not sure that the man is sober. Danger, the most terrible she had ever faced, was substantially in this room. Thames did not try to cheer her.
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