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At any rate, it seemed dull to me, and I put it aside and sat there absent-mindedly dreaming of a little girl-thief that I knew once when when the handle of the door turned and the Bishop got in, and we were off. Oh, the little Bishop the contrast between him and the fat, pompous rig caught me!
He who had coveted the horse with desire, hungered for the maiden with passion; and with him, to feel an appetite, was to rush toward its gratification, as fire rushes upon tow. "Baltasar!" he said. The gypsy turned. "You are a girl-thief as well as a horse-thief."
The planned robbery had, however, gone wrong and we had been compelled to return to London. Then Rayne had conceived the sinister idea of sending me to Lady Lydbrook who was not Sir Owen's wife at all but one of his agents like myself, and whose real name was Betty Tressider a girl-thief whose chief possession was a rope of imitation pearls.
"Then you meant marriage by me, if I could be made to consent?" "Of course. I'm not utterly vile," he replied, with face lowered in shame. "Have you any idea what you've done?" "Done? I don't understand." "You have ruined yourself, lost your manhood, become an outlaw, a fugitive, made yourself the worst thing on the border a girl-thief, and all for nothing." "No, I have you.
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