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"Tell me," he inquired, "is that your house the next one to this?" "That's the old Hastings' house," she assented. "They are all family mansions along here." "It looks an easy place to burgle," he remarked. She laughed quietly. "I should think it would be," she admitted. "There are any quantity of downstair windows.
Don't you feel as if we were poachers?" "Yes, or burglars! I guess we've got to burgle quietly. Hope the old lady hasn't set man-traps in her park." "Or doesn't leave savage bloodhounds to roam at large and guard the premises. Well, we shall have to take our chance. It's rather like storming a fortress isn't it?" "I call it precious!" chuckled Diana. The fence did not look too easy to scale.
He did not even know which attic it was that had been reserved at the time of the letting of Heston, and now held some of the old London furniture and papers. Well, he must manage it, "burgle" his own house, if necessary. What an absurd situation! Should he consult his mother? No; better not. That evening General Hobson was expected for a couple of nights.
It is just as well that we did not bring up our trunks, or we should have had to dump them down in the front garden. You wait here, dear, under the shelter of the porch, and I will walk round and see if I can burgle it. He tried the back, but it was as dark as the front, and the kitchen- door was locked. Then he prowled unhappily in the rain from window to window. They were all fastened.
She longed to recline indolently in a priceless tea-gown on the couch by the fireplace and issue orders.... She approached the writing-table, littered with papers, documents, in scores and hundreds. To the left was the brown bag. It was locked, and very heavy, she thought. To the right was a pile of telegrams. She picked up one, and read: 'Pank, Grand Hotel, Birmingham. Why not burgle hotel?
Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes. There is another case of the thing that I mean. Why on earth do the newspapers, in describing a dynamite outrage or any other political assassination, call it a "dastardly outrage" or a cowardly outrage? It is perfectly evident that it is not dastardly in the least.
I would have given anything to have had Peter with a whole leg by my side. I stepped on the terrace and listened. There was not a sound in the world, not even the distant rumble of a cart. The pile towered above me like a mausoleum, and I reflected that it must take some nerve to burgle an empty house.
Returning to the safe, he continued: "Well, anyhow, he made a furrow perhaps an inch and a half long and a quarter of an inch wide and, I should say, not over an eighth of an inch deep. Then he commenced to burgle in earnest. Under the dent he made a sort of little cup of red clay and poured in the 'soup' the nitroglycerin so that it would run into the depression.
"Jolly good show," interpolated his lordship, chattily. "It was at the Circle over here. I went twice." "A friend of mine, a man named Mifflin, had been playing the hero in it, and after the show, at the club, he started in talking about the art of burglary he'd been studying it and I said that anybody could burgle a house.
"I don't doubt," he said carelessly, "but what we could pay ourselves well for the job, spoil the 'Gyptians, you know, forage on the enemy. Plenty of portables in them houses, eh!" "I never said" Sam spoke slowly and deliberately "I wanted to 'sassinate him, or rob him, or burgle him.
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