Manning had shown on previous occasions that he found Ann Veronica
interesting and that he wished to interest her. ‘You have the means to
take up your rightful place. —"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. But something
instinctive prevented that, and with the finest resolve not to be “silly” and
prudish she found that whenever he became at all bold in this matter she became
severely scientific and impersonal, almost entomological indeed, in her method;
she killed every remark as he made it and pinned it out for examination. ”
She laughed softly to herself. You’re the only person I’ve
really given good, straight, unselfish thought to. You and I. "
So saying, he advanced towards the window, threw open the sash, and called out
in the voice of Thames Darrell, "Who's there?"
He was answered by a shot from a pistol.
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