And, by way of checking
his housekeeper's familiarity, he pointed significantly to the table. Her
face is shaped funny, real long and skinny, and she has no
chin. —"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. It was not quite the search I intended,’ he said with a touch of selfmockery as he released her, ‘but success comes in all sorts of unexpected ways. How little he
knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that
her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on
this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an
aunt in the States. "
"Be pleased, then, in future not to let your surprise find vent in words," rejoined
Jonathan, sternly. ‘Indeed?’
Gerald grinned. That was the Frenchie, Valade, surely. "Take off the ruffles, Blueskin," rejoined Wild.
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