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At length the light seemed to break through his face. "Among the various kinds of insanity," he said, slowly measuring his words, "there is one that manifests itself as an irresistible impulse to steal. Such terms as neuropath and kleptomaniac are often regarded as rather elegant names for contemptible excuses invented by medical men to cover up stealing.
She knew she could not go on stealing forever without being punished." "She probably couldn't help it," was the hesitating answer. "Perhaps she is a kleptomaniac you know there are such people." "Oh, but they are always rich people, who can afford to pay the judge for letting them off easy!" said one of the girls, laughing.
"I'm going home." "Pooh!" said Bobby. "Liz says it's a ghost. A kleptomaniac ghost at that." "He can't be a kleptomaniac, Bobby," said Laura, laughing, "or he wouldn't have left money for the goods." "He's a kleptomani-antic ghost, then!" giggled Bobby. "How ridiculous!" said Jess. "Whoever heard the like?"
Mivart will hardly deny that a man owes a large share of the moral tendencies which he exhibits to his ancestors; and the man who inherits a desire to steal from a kleptomaniac, or a tendency to benevolence from a Howard, is, so far as he illustrates hereditary transmission, comparable to the dog who inherits the desire to fetch a duck out of the water from his retrieving sire.
Would I be suspected of being a kleptomaniac? In the intensity of my mortification I madly followed the first impulse which moved me. This was to dive under the bed. I had no more than taken refuge in this curious hiding-place, than I regretted the foolish act; to be discovered there would be infamy and disgrace too deep for words.
Peter turned to her guest with confidential coyness. "A diplomat like you will know how to treat this as if it hadn't happened. Peter's little weakness; it runs in the family." "Good Lord! Do you mean to say he's a kleptomaniac, like Cousin Snatcher?" "Oh, not exactly," said Mrs. Peter, anxious to whitewash her husband a little greyer than she was painting him.
The kleptomaniac, however, is generally a rich or influential woman. She steals something she does not need, and she is therefore held to be a kleptomaniac and not responsible. The poor woman who steals something she actually needs is not a kleptomaniac. I have no doubt that the rich woman who could not resist shop-lifting is a kleptomaniac.
I exclaimed. "You say you want to be my friend, yet you seem to think I am a kleptomaniac. I can't imagine what I should want with any dry old document out of the Foreign Office, can you?" "Yes, I can imagine," said Godensky drily. "Pray tell me then. Also what document it was. For, joking apart, this is rather a serious accusation."
She looked at Ma as though she was wondering why she didn't hit me with a poker, but she went on, and Polly said 'wipe off your chin, and then the lady got through and got up, and told Ma it must be a great trial to have an idiotic child, and then Ma she was mad, and said it wasn't half so bad as it was to be a kleptomaniac, and then the woman got up and said she wouldn't stay no longer, and Pa said to me to take that parrot outdoors, and that seemed to make them all good natured again.
Look at the trouble it causes. "It sounds incredible," said Uncle Willoughby, thereby bucking me up a trifle. "Shall I go and look in his room?" asked young blighted Edwin. "I'm sure the parcel's there." "But what could be his motive for perpetrating this extraordinary theft?" "Perhaps he's a what you said just now." "A kleptomaniac? Impossible!"
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