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Updated: October 15, 2025
I know of no Christian authority that would not admit that it is as wicked to murder a poor man as a rich man, or as bad to burgle an inelegantly furnished house as a tastefully furnished one. But the world had wandered further and further from these truisms, and nobody in the world was further from them than the group of the great English aristocrats.
Even among educated people you might pass as a curate." "I AM a curate," said Mr. Ledbetter, "or, at least " "You are trying to be. I know. But you didn't ought to burgle. You are not the man to burgle. You are, if I may say it the thing will have been pointed out to you before a coward." "Do you know," said Mr. Ledbetter, trying to get a final opening, "it was that very question "
To burgle his house is no more than to forcibly take his pocketbook an action in which you were prepared to aid me." I turned it over in my mind. "Yes," I said, "it is morally justifiable so long as our object is to take no articles save those which are used for an illegal purpose." "Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk.
There it lay, gray and green, with its old stones and ivy the same Castle which Dickie had seen on the day when they lay among the furze bushes and waited to burgle Talbot Court. There were red roofs at one side of the Castle where a house had been built among the ruins.
To burgle his house is no more than to forcibly take his pocket-book an action in which you were prepared to aid me." I turned it over in my mind. "Yes," I said; "it is morally justifiable so long as our object is to take no articles save those which are used for an illegal purpose." "Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable I have only to consider the question of personal risk.
There's Miss Mackwayte's gloves and handbag on the toilet-table just as she left 'em last night. I wouldn't let her touch her clothes even. She went over to Mrs. Appleby's in her dressing-gown, in a taxi." "Then Master Burglar didn't burgle this room?" asked the Chief. "Nothing touched, not even the girl's money," replied Marigold. "Then why did he come up here at all?" asked Desmond.
He had got the impression that a revolver was as much a part of the ordinary well-dressed man's equipment in the United States as a collar. 'I think it was a burglar, said Elizabeth. 'There have been a lot of burglaries down here this summer. 'Would a burglar burgle the outhouse? Rummy idea, rather, what? Not much sense in it. I think it must have been a tramp.
Watson, I mean to burgle Milverton's house to-night." I had a catching of the breath, and my skin went cold at the words, which were slowly uttered in a tone of concentrated resolution.
The burglar jumped to his feet quickly. "You said he had gone to the opera," he hissed, hoarsely and with immediate suspicion. "I ought to have explained," said Tommy. "He didn't buy the tickets." The burglar sat again and toyed with the wishbone. "Why do you burgle houses?" asked the boy, wonderingly. "Because," replied the burglar, with a sudden flow of tears.
If the average man and most men are average men should wake up in the night and see a woman burglar feeling in his pants, rifling the pockets, or rummaging in the drawers of the bureau, he would lay still and let her burgle, as long as she would keep still and not wake up his wife.
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