Over the mantel, set into an ornately carved panel with fluted columns at each end, was a portrait of a man on horseback. The little girl uttered no remonstrance; but, replacing the flowers in the basket, burst into tears, and withdrew. Spurlock gave his full name and tremblingly inscribed it upon the certificate of marriage. —"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 felt—wrapped in thick cobwebs. ’ ‘Yes, it’s all my fault,’ he agreed soothingly, ‘and you may rail at me presently as much as you please. Oh, I grew fond of you as the years went by. Don’t be afraid that I shall stunt it. Winter came at the manor. I need a white man, if only to talk to; and it will be a god send to talk to someone of your intelligence. ‘Comment? You have then met this Suzanne?’ The woman turned a deep red. ’ ‘You’re going to break into the house? You’re mad. “I do not understand. On this side stood the instruments with which the latter piece of pleasantry had been effected,—namely, a bucket filled with paint and a brush: on that was erected a trophy, consisting of a watchman's rattle, a laced hat, with the crown knocked out, and its place supplied by a lantern, a campaign wig saturated with punch, a torn steen-kirk and ruffles, some halfdozen staves, and a broken sword. Understand me.
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