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Left alone, she bolted the door, and as if with a thief's hand, opened her wardrobe, unlocked her jewel-box, and drew out the sapphire in its flat morocco case. She restored the box to its place, the key to its ring then she opened the case and looked at the sapphire.
Robinson showed him, and how the bells were rung at his head by the thief's foot. Jem complimented him highly. Robinson smiled, but the next moment sighed. "They will be too clever for us some of these dark nights see how nearly they have nicked us again and again!" "Don't be down on your luck, captain!"
Remember Pilate's acquittal: 'I find no fault in Him, and his wife's warning, 'Have thou nothing to do with that just Person. Think of Judas, 'I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. Listen to the penitent thief's low voice gasping out in his pangs and almost collapse: 'This man hath done nothing amiss. Listen to the Centurion telling the impression made even on his rough nature: 'Truly this was a righteous Man.
"No," replied the Thief, "there are some things which I will not take among them your hand." "You must use a little strategy," said a Philosopher to whom the Successful Man of Business had reported the Thief's haughty reply. "Leave your hand out some night, and he will take it."
I cannot do anything else but love him now, but you must hate and loathe him. Think of me as your wife me, the thief's daughter, whispered about, pointed at. Think, as I have done, of that possible time when you might love me less because of him and the wrong he did you, when you might be ashamed to be seen with me. People don't forget crimes like his, Harry; they talk of them to their children.
"That wouldn't be the way to go about it, though," Dick responded. "Why not?" "Because stolen property, when recovered, has to be turned over to the police first of all. Then, if the thief is caught, the police have the loot as evidence against the thief." "How long do the police keep the stuff?" demanded Greg. "Until the thief's trial, if there is one, is over." "Then, if Fits is caught, Mr.
"This ship belongs to the fair sir here, my guest and friend; and if any man dares to steal from her a stave or a nail, I will have his thief's hand cut off." "The ship, fair lord," said Hereward, "is yours, not mine. You should build twenty more after her pattern, and man them with such lads as these, and then go down to 'Miklagard and Spanialand, That lie so far on the lee, O!
For though the bazaars knew nothing of the thief's identity and it was reported he had escaped by the river yet McLean felt the sinister finger of suspicion. If the thief had not been a thief unless of brides! and if he had not escaped ? Impatiently the young Scotchman clapped his heels against the donkey's sides, enhancing the efforts of the runner with the gesticulating stick.
"Mercy, sir O sir!" cried the lad, the tears streaming from his eyes. "The thief's cat, with three knots in each tail." Smallbones raised up his thin arms, and clasped his hands, pleading for mercy. "And after the flogging you shall be keel-hauled." "O God!" screamed Smallbones, falling down on his knees, "mercy mercy!" But there was none.
"Tut, tut! no niggers in Ireland," said he, shaking his head with an expression between a caution and a threat. Not more than two hours after the tragedy at the Elkhorn hotel, of which he was the indirect cause, Calvin Morgan appeared at Judge Thayer's little office. The judge had finished his preparation for the cattle thief's case, and now sat ruminating it over his cob pipe.
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