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Updated: May 28, 2025
'Then if you are not a robber, why are you here? why creep in at the area-window, appropriate other people's spoons, and get locked up all night in their house? 'For no other reason, than that I was in a hurry. I had come home from Barcelona, and was going in to my guardian's, next door, when your unfortunate area-window caught my eye, with the plate on the table inside.
I had only sneaked into a gentleman's house by the area-window, and pocketed his tablespoons; and here I was, locked and barred and belled in, sitting very comfortably, in the dark and alone, in his drawing-room. Very particularly comfortable. What a capital fellow, to be sure! What an amusing personage! Wouldn't the baronet laugh in the morning? Wouldn't he ask me to stay breakfast?
I belonged to nobody in the world, if not to him; I bore but an indifferent reputation in regard to steadiness; and after four years' absence in a foreign country, I had returned idle, penniless, and objectless just in time to find an area-window open in the dusk of the evening, and a heap of plate lying behind it, within view of the street.
'How did you break in? said she. 'I did not break: it is far from being my character, I assure you. But the area-window was open, and so I just thought I would come in. 'You were attracted by the plate! Take it, for Heaven's sake, desperate man, and go away! 'I did take some of it, but with no evil intention only by way of amusement.
Why should I desire to come into any individual's area-window instead of the door? And how came it that all this silver-plate had found its way into my pockets? I was angry as well as terrified: I was judge and criminal in one; but the instincts of nature got the better of my sense of justice, and I rose suddenly up, to ascertain whether it was not possible to get from the window into the street.
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