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Good Christians pray for me, I deserve death, I am willing to die, for though my sins are great, God's mercies are greater. The Life of EDMUND NEAL, a Footpad
She felt like one who had suffered the terror of the onslaught of a murderous footpad only to find out that it was an innocent pedestrian asking the time. Daylight was the quicker to achieve action. "Oh, I know I'm a sure enough fool," he said. "I I guess I'll sit down. Don't be scairt, Miss Mason. I'm not real dangerous."
He slackened his pace as he heard footsteps overtake him, and where a beam of light shone out from an open door he wheeled about, thinking me a footpad. "You, Félix?" "Yes, monsieur; I go with M. le Comte." "I have not permitted you." "Then must I go in despite. Monsieur is wounded; I cannot leave him to go unsquired." "There are lackeys to hire. I bade you seek M. le Duc."
That the footpad on the road should have such desire when, with his pistol, he stops the traveller on his journey we all understand. And we know what we think of the footpad, and what we do to him. He is a poor creature, who from his youth upwards has had no good thing done for him, uneducated, an outcast, whom we should pity more than we despise him.
When his money was stolen, there seemed nothing to do, as he said to Michael Clones, but to become a footpad or a pirate. Then the stormy doors of the navy had opened wide to him; and as many a man is tempted into folly or crime by tempestuous nature, so he, forlorn, spiritually unkempt, but physically and mentally well-composed, in a spirit of bravado, flung himself into the bowels of the fleet.
They can send their inspector afterward." "That's fine, Tom! What Ugh! what's this? Another footpad?" Out of the darkness beside the fence a bulky figure started. For a moment Tom thought it was the same man who had attacked him twice. Then the very size of this new assailant proved that suspicion to be unfounded. "Koku!" exclaimed Tom. "What's the matter with you, Koku?"
He suffered the 8th day of February, 1722-3, being at that time about thirty years of age. The Life of JOHN LEVEE, a Highwayman, Footpad, etc. There is a certain busy sprightliness in some young people which from I know not what views, parents are apt to encourage in hopes of its one day producing great effects.
"Can he be dead?" came from Sam. Then he bent over the lumberman. "No, he still lives. But he has been treated most shamefully." "This must be some more of Arnold Baxter's work" "Or else the work of some footpad." Both boys knelt over the prostrate form of the lumberman and did what they could to restore him to his senses. In this they were partly successful. "Don't hit me again!
The men who were approaching were a couple of bakers who were employed in a neighboring bakery. "Vas ist dis!" cried one of them, as he stumbled over Dick's body. "A young mans!" "He is drunk, Carl," said the other. "Let him be or you may get into trouble." "Maype he vos hurt, or sick," said the German baker, bending down. "I vos know der cop on dis beat and he knows I vos no footpad."
At the sound of his voice the disputants found theirs, or rather found themselves restored to command over human speech. Each turned towards Sir Blaise, swaying over the clasped arms of his captor. "Sir Blaise," screamed Master Paul, "in the King's name I call upon you to commit this thief to jail." "Set that footpad in the pillory, Sir Blaise," yelled Master Peter.
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