He it was
who formed the grand design of a robber corporation, of which he should be the
sole head and director, with the right of delivering those who concealed their
booty, or refused to share it with him, to the gallows. "Ay, indeed! And who may that be?" inquired his wife. You’ll never even see me again, for that
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matter. She seemed to grow more
beautiful to him and not the opposite. —"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.
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