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Updated: May 10, 2025
"'Tis no matter!" "All I asks is," quoth the fellow with a quizzical look, "how you've fobbed the nubbing-cheat so long!" "And what I ask is," quoth I, "how a sailor-man comes to know the patter o' the flash coves!" "'Tis no matter," says he, "but since you're o' the Brotherhood sit ye and welcome, 'tis dry enough here in this cave."
He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: 'Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities'; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow.
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