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The police will give us one construction, leaving the word only that least minimum of meaning without which society would fall in pieces; but surely we must take some higher sense than this; surely we hope more than a bare subsistence for mankind; surely we wish mankind to prosper and go on from strength to strength, and ourselves to live rightly in the eye of some more exacting potentate than a policeman.
"Is that forbidden?" "Of course it is forbidden," replied the policeman. The sufferer from dropsy was driven off. I took another cab, and followed him. I wanted to know whether it was true that begging alms was prohibited and how it was prohibited.
By doing so, we can still keep an eye upon their safety, and we avoid the very extraordinary figure we should otherwise present a young man, a young lady, and a mass of baggage, standing castaway at midnight on the streets of London. So it was done, and the event proved him to be wise; for long before there was any word of a cab, a policeman appeared upon the scene, turned upon us the full glare of his lantern, and hung suspiciously behind us in a doorway.
Hardships had begun in earnest, for we had thirteen miles to ride in the falling snow, and our hands and feet were frozen. As we filed through the silent streets, an occasional knot of night-birds gave us a thin cheer, and once a policeman rushed at me, and wrung my hand, with a fervent "Safe home again!"
Through these haunts the ragged and penniless may walk unfearing, for they have nothing to dread from the lawless, more, perhaps, from the law; but the wealthy, the respectable, the spruce, the dainty, let them beware the spot, unless the policeman is in sight or day is in the skies!
And then they said to wait a moment, and one policeman went forth into the night while I warmed myself at the stove, all the while racking my brains for the trap they were going to spring on me. I groaned to myself when I saw him come in the door at the heels of the policeman.
The boy was still hitting out in all directions; the policeman had to hold him off at arm's length. He was a ragged, hungry little fellow. The policeman saw at a glance what he had in his fingers, and proceeded to drag him away; and there was no need to have made any more ado about the matter. Ferdinand went after him and laid his hand on the policeman's arm.
Balls got no farther, for Diana, who had been struck dumb for the moment by the news, recovered herself. "His leg broken!" she exclaimed with a look of consternation; "Oh! the poor, poor boy! the dear boy! and it was me did that too, as well as knocking down the poor policeman!"
Then came the famous episode of a policeman who bade the prisoner go free and arrested the judge instead. Other policemen were called upon to hinder their comrade, but they declared that he was right; and then newspaper reporters, when ordered to write about it, avowed that they would write only what they believed.
The unexpected always happens; firmness, sympathy and ingenuity are the virtues required and occasionally the added dignity of a policeman, who makes himself quite conspicuous, once in a while." Another reply is a follows: "Miss C has turned over your inquiry concerning unruly boys to me to answer.
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