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He died, as he was born, an expert cly-faker, whose achievements in sleight of hand are as yet unparalleled. Had the world been one vast breast pocket his fish-hook fingers would have turned it inside out. But it was not his to mount a throne, or overthrow a dynasty. 'My forks, he boasted, 'are equally long, and they never fail me. That is at once the reason and the justification of his triumph.
Bravo! the best cly-faker of 'em all couldn't have done it better. And now for the fawney the ring I mean. I'm no great judge of these articles, Ma'am; but I trust to your honour not to palm off paste upon me." "It is a diamond," said the lady, in an agony of distress, "the child!" "A diamond! Here, take the kid," cried Blueskin, slipping the infant adroitly under her scarf.
A dexterous cly-faker, an intrepid blade, Allen had also the keenest eye for untested talent, and he detected Hind's shining qualities after the first glass. No sooner had they paid the price of release, than Hind was admitted of his comrade's gang; he took the oath of fealty, and by way of winning his spurs was bid to hold up a traveller on Shooter's Hill.
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