“Alone, dear?”
“Yes, aunt. ’
She bit her lip, frowning. She had
tried him as a Crusader, in which guise he seemed plausible but heavy—“There
IS something heavy about him; I wonder if it’s his mustache?”—and as a Hussar,
which made him preposterous, and as a Black Brunswicker, which was better,
and as an Arab sheik. —"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 was trying to adjust the wimple, dragging at it
and fighting with her loosened hair. The carpenter well knew from the obstacle which had interfered with
his own progress, that the unknown could not have passed through the same lock
as himself. He carried her in his arms up
the steps, like a bride on her honeymoon. He stepped back further. “I would marry your sister anyhow, under any circumstances,” he answered.
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