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Believing that the last of the Mohicans still lived, and that the continent of the setting sun resembled Hounslow Heath in the old highwaymen's days, she presented to me a blunderbuss!
Dangerfield, who was in great force, and, indeed, in particularly pleasant spirits, except when unfortunate Nutter was actually under discussion when he grew grave and properly saddened told, in his clear, biting way, a curious rosary of Newgate stories of highwaymen's disguises of clever constables of circumstantial evidence, marvellously elicited, and exquisitely put together of monsters, long concealed, drawn from the deep by the finest tackle, into upper light, and dropped deftly into the landing-net of Justice.
After he had come to feel at ease with us, our host, one day when we three were alone, asked: "Are you some of the King of the Highwaymen's men?" On our disclaiming any connection with the King of the Highwaymen, or any knowledge of such a character, he sighed and said: "Oh, well! Of course, if you were, you would deny it, anyhow. You may be or you may not be.
House-breakers and highwaymen's bad enough; but a thief as come a-robbin' a garden, where you've been nussin' the things up for years and years ah! there's nothing worse than that." "You've got some old birch brooms, David," cried Tom, without committing himself to the gardener's sentiments. "Birch, sir? Tchah! Birch would only tickle him, even if we could hit him on the bare skin." "Nonsense!
That had been the way to have got myself ill-treated by the guards, who would not have listened to me, for they are brutish fellows, who will hear no reason: I was with the robbers, and that was enough to make them believe me to be one of their number. When we had been brought before the caliph, he ordered the ten highwaymen's heads to be cut off immediately.
That had been the way to have got myself ill-treated by the guards, who would not have listened to me, for they are brutish fellows, who will hear no reason: I was with the robbers, and that was enough to make them believe me to be one of their number. When we had been brought before the caliph, he ordered the ten highwaymen's heads to be cut off immediately.
The court-room seemed to have a fascination for him, although he was now a rich man with important demands upon his time. It was whispered about that the Pennsylvanians had spent a hundred thousand dollars hunting the criminals down; and some people were fanciful enough to see in Henry Francis the highwaymen's Nemesis. He made a very dignified Nemesis indeed.
But the singer pronounced it Do-ho-ver; and then it went on over and over again. "Yes," said Ike, as if he had been talking about something; "them padroles put a stop to that game." "What game?" I said. "Highwaymen's. This used to be one of their fav'rite spots, from here away to Hounslow Heath.
When we came before the caliph, he ordered the ten highwaymen's heads to be cut off immediately. The executioner drew us up in a file within the reach of his arm, and by good fortune I was the last. He cut off the heads of the ten highwaymen, beginning with the first; and when he came to me he stopped.
When Elise was ten and Dick seven, she read him highwaymen's tales until his large blue eyes almost escaped from their sockets. It was at the finish of one of these narratives of derring-do that she whispered temptation into his ear, with the result that they bided their opportunity, and, when the one groom on duty was asleep, repaired to the stables armed with a loaded shot-gun.
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