‘To where has he gone off?’ ‘No use asking me,’ shrugged the captain. You represented to us the immaculate Briton, the one Englishman who typified the Saxonism, if I may coin a word, of our race. —"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. I have been insulted, and cursed at, and threatened with both pistol and dagger. Meanwhile, the clergyman, bare-headed and in his surplice, advanced to meet them. The funeral, it has just been said, took place on that day. The less said, therefore, on this point the better; because, as nothing is to be gained by it, it would only be trouble thrown away.
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