"To be sure," returned Wild; "he's not only alive, but likely for life, if we don't clip the thread. We were talking about the suffrage—and I rather scoffed. —"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. She tiptoed to the stand and gathered up the manuscripts which she carried to a chair by the window. Until he felt a sharpness digging into his coat at the point of his heart. White said slowly, “it depends a good deal upon what rooms you have. “What of her? Have you quarrelled with her?” The girl shook her head. He was a good foster dad that had never so much as leered at her, not even once. It would be too mortifying. " "You won't complain of the delay when I tell you what I've done," answered Jack. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia.
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