—"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. “Perhaps for me,” she added,
with a sudden wistful look out of the bare high window, “a night of beginnings. ‘You
ought to be glad someone cares enough about your wretched little neck to try
and save it. She
exhorted Ann Veronica not to become one of “those unsexed intellectuals,
neither man nor woman. He had bled everywhere, but she
had struck when the opportunity was ripe.
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