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And give me leave to say, when we suffer any temptation to atone for dishonesty itself, we are as candid and merciful as we ought to be; and so far I confess I have gone; for I have often pitied the fate of a highwayman, when I have been on the grand jury; and have more than once applied to the judge on the behalf of such as have had any mitigating circumstances in their case; but when dishonesty is attended with any blacker crime, such as cruelty, murder, ingratitude, or the like, compassion and forgiveness then become faults.
In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!"
Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that "placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light;" but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, censured it as giving encouragement, not only to vice, but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero and dismissing him at last unpunished.
'Now, who casts? the peer cried briskly, arranging himself in his seat. 'George, I'll set you. The old stakes? 'No, I am done for to-night, Sir George answered yawning without disguise. 'What! crabbed, dear lad? 'Ay, set Berkeley, my lord. He's a better match for you. 'And be robbed by the first highwayman we meet? No, no!
At the Crown Tavern they quaffed their last glass of ale, and told the landlord with many a leer and smirk that they would pay him on their way back. Though gravity was asked, it was not always given; but in the Eighteenth Century courage was seldom wanting. And the highwayman endured the rope, as the practised gambler loses his estate, without blenching.
This put an end to our acquaintance, as well as left me without courage enough to request the loan I had contemplated. I own the whole thing was done with much shrewdness, and was a decided improvement on being kicked into the street. But though I was neither a rogue nor a highwayman, I took up my valise and proceeded into the street, feeling like one whose dignity was never to be restored to him.
He was fired at was wounded. You will share with me the hope that the highwayman who stopped him may be brought to justice, though, indeed, your man Tardif left him behind in the dust. Perhaps you came upon him, Madame hein?" She steeled herself. Too much was at stake; she could not resent his hateful implications now. "Tardif was not my messenger, Monsieur, as you know.
Don't be a common garden highwayman or pirate; be a Napoleon or a Willy Hohenzollern." "You have the idea," replied Mr. Tutt. "Crime is unsuccessful defiance of the existing order of things. Once rebellion rises to the dignity of revolution murder becomes execution and the murderers become belligerents.
"Hand over your pocketbook, old man, and be quick about it." "I presume you are joking," said the professor nervously. "You won't find it much of a joke!" "Are you a highwayman?" gasped the professor. The other gave a quick, short laugh. "You may call me that if you like," he said.
The Court-house was packed to suffocation; and the Sheriff, heavily armed, could with difficulty force a way through the mass. When the clanking of the prisoner's irons was heard, all the pushing, struggling, murmuring sounds ceased until the redoubtable highwayman stood in the dock.
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