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"Poaching's a misdemeanor; blackmailing's a felony," said Sir James loftily. The distinction was lost on the Twins; and Erebus said with conviction: "Poaching's worse." Sir James hated to be beaten; and he looked from one to the other with very angry eyes. The Twins wore a cold imperturbable air. Their appearance no longer pleased him. "It's your own fault entirely," said the Terror coldly.
"Well," said Jack, "I had noticed some rabbits in that field on our way back from Cirencester, so I just crept off in the dark and found a hole, and took a strong stick and drove that into the ground, and then fixed the wire to it with the noose open, like this, so that the rabbit would run right into it when it came out. And it did! Poaching's frightfully simple."
If you'd been village children but gentlefolk!" cried Sir James with considerable heat. "Well, the Douglases were gentlefolk; and they blackmailed," said the Terror in a tone of sweet reason. "Poaching's a misdemeanor; blackmailing's a kind of stealing," said Erebus virtuously, forgetting for the moment her mother's fur stole.
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