“Why not?” Lady Lescelles answered. He was not addicted to monologue, and the only audible comment he permitted himself at first upon a universe that was evidently anything but satisfactory to him that afternoon, was one compact and entirely unassigned “Damn!” The word must have had some gratifying quality, because he repeated it. For a time he and Miss Klegg contradicted one another. “John’s here. . She sings better perhaps. It was as if he could smell it on her. ’ ‘Well, I am glad he did not,’ intervened Lucilla, forestalling another withering comment from the captain. He was made welcome as McClintock's agent; but he politely declined all the proffered courtesies. —"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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