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"I could make a fine sketch of him now," whispered Hogarth to Gay. Her heels made contact with Rhea’s knees and hobbled
her with a crack. "
"My dear," observed Wood, "you should be more charitable—"
"Charitable!" repeated his wife, "that's your constant cry. He'll be here two or three days. The solos were
revealing, sensual and moody. Ye gods! what a
wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one
regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against
you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse
confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the
Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the
painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. About ten days after this interview, Blueskin, having been indicted by Wild for
several robberies, and true bills found against him, was placed at the bar of the
Old Bailey to be arraigned; when he declared that he would not plead to the
indictment, unless the sum of five hundred pounds, taken from him by Jonathan
Wild, was first restored to him. "We may trust him," he added in a whisper; "he is a staunch friend of the good
cause. Jonathan laughed scornfully. —"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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