"Old Van told me if he grew up he would be hanged. No pistols, no daggers today?’
‘Would you have me show a pistol with so many soldiers? I am not a fool. Men fled from their tottering habitations, and
returned to them scared by greater dangers. Already the seed of a tender dream was
stirring. Cosette sat under the table, still as a
mouse, fondling her pitiful doll. —"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 looked at him quizzically and shrugged.
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