—"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. Here, where every element of her surroundings was tawdry and commonplace, and before this young man of vulgar origin and appearance, it was striking. I fancy that this is a little more than playing at Bohemianism. “Diedermayer’s a kiss-ass. She guessed that he probably slept all of three hours a night at most. Hurt beyond what he could imagine by the selfishness and pride of her forbears, whose fateful disputes had robbed her of the life she should have led, the plucky little devil had taken matters into her own hands. One of her duties, after she had been taught to read, had been to read aloud after breakfast and before going to bed. Gerald stood quite still for a moment or two, listening intently. You will torture yourself and torture her all through life; but in the end she will pour the wine of her faith into a sound chalice. "Mur—der!" roared Wood, struggling to free himself from his assailant, by whom he was half strangled. Wood was an old friend of mine—and I recollect seeing Jack when he was bound 'prentice to him. ’ He let her go.
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