Perhaps the Parisian atmosphere had affected him. —"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. "Slip on the handcuffs," cried the thief-taker. After that consolations fled. My poor son despairs of me, for I have primed every member of the family to bring me the latest novels whenever they choose to visit. “That he should be in the same world with me!” said Ann Veronica, reduced to reading the list of good things the British Tea-Table Company had priced for its patrons. Plays Beethoven, Rubenstein and all those chaps. Just as I might have killed another, if he had come out. ” “There’s green-fly,” admitted Ann Veronica.
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