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Updated: June 2, 2025
The departure of the fly had waked the navvy. He crawled on to the seat, and with malignant eyes watched the driver flog down the road. "The man inside o' that," he called, "'as poisoned me. 'E's a body-snatcher. 'E's comin' back again when I'm cold. 'Ere's my evidence!" He waved his share of the overcoat, and I went my way, because I was hungry.
What do I care whether our hero's grandfather was Archbishop of Canterbury or a professional body-snatcher? I don't even care which of the two was my own personal friend's grandfather, and how much less can I take an interest in this imaginary progenitor of the creation of an author's brain? The introduction of such a colourless shadow is, to my mind, the height of impertinence. If I were Mr.
The body-snatcher was to be punished by death and the lack of sepulture. Earl or king to be burned in his own ship. Ten sailors may be burnt on one ship.
A whiskey-bottle that shaved within an inch of my head, followed by an angry oath, at once recalled me to myself and showed me my role. "You tend to your business, you infernal body-snatcher, and let us run ours," ran the message, and I understood.
The forger occupied the same berth with the body-snatcher. The man of education learned strange secrets of house-breakers' craft, and the vulgar ruffian of St. Giles took lessons of self-control from the keener intellect of the professional swindler. The fraudulent clerk and the flash "cracksman" interchanged experiences.
And yet all the time he vaguely suspected that they were really in complete accord and growing to like each other. "I've come to see Lorelei," he explained, affably. "Oh, you're looking for scandal, eh?" breathed Miss Demorest. "Well, you won't get it, body-snatcher!" Pope bowed gravely. "You overwhelm me with your courtesy," he said. "I do not represent the press to-day. I'm here as a friend.
"Do you see that man?" a voice whispered in my ear. "He is a body-snatcher." "Nonsense," I said; "are you joking, or what?" "No, I am not; and, if you like, I will tell you his story at luncheon." And surely what better time could be chosen for a "body-snatching" story than "luncheon."
I dares do all that does become a man; but No. 7 is a body-snatcher! No. 7 has bullied me, and I bore it! No. 7 might whop me, and this h-arm would let him whop! He lives with graves and churchyards and stiff 'uns, that damnable No. 7! Ask some'at else, Grabman. I dares not touch No. 7 any more than the ghostesses."
You white-washed tombstone raiser, you body-snatcher, do you think you're the man to tell me to hold my tongue when I want to talk to a gentleman?" "Hush!" I said soothingly. "He means right by you." "You must lie quiet, or I'll not be responsible for the consequences," said the doctor firmly.
I cannot tell you why. The affair is complex. I have to settle it, if I can, so that neither Logan nor any one else except the body-snatcher and polite letter-writer shall ever know how I managed it. Trevor had to be content with this reply. He took Merton, when they arrived, into the smoking-room, rang for tea, and 'squared his sister, as he said, in the drawing-room.
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