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Updated: September 27, 2025
'Police-courts are for the robber, and discipline for the soldier, he used to say; 'but I, thank God, am neither robber nor soldier! Rather queer Alexey Sergeitch certainly was, but the soul within him was by no means a petty one. I will tell you something about him.
Take her from this place of wickedness and police-courts." And Deborah looked round the cellar with a shudder. Suddenly she started and held up her finger, nodding towards a narrow door at the side of the cellar. "Master's footstep," she said in a harsh whisper. "I'd know it in a thousand just like a thief's, ain't it? stealing as you might say. Don't tell him you've seen me."
"Ah! you will care even more than that for me," she said, meeting Pons' eyes. "You will love your kind old Cibot like a mother, will you not? A mother, that is it! I am your mother; you are both of you my children.... Ah, if I only knew them that caused you this sorrow, I would do that which would bring me into the police-courts, and even to prison; I would tear their eyes out!
Yet were men one-tenth part so ready with their fists, as women are with their barbed and envenomed tongues, what savage brutes you would think us would n't you? and what a rushing trade the police-courts would drive, to be sure. That is one of the good old cliches that came back to me during my walk. All women are alike there's no choice amongst animated fashion-plates: that is another.
But these things are only the frills if not even the froth of the subject; and those who imitate them should exercise caution in the imitation. The police-courts, and even more exalted, but still more unwholesome abodes of Justice, have sometimes been the consequences of misguided satire in letters.
Moralists usually employ their weapons against obstructive administrations. In their eyes, crime belongs to the assizes or the police-courts; but the socially refined evils escape their ken; the adroitness that triumphs under shield of the Code is above them or beneath them; they have neither eye-glass nor telescope; they want good stout horrors easily visible.
Logan, vous chassez de race. The old Restalrig blood is in your veins. 'My ancestors nearly nipped off with a king, and why can't I carry off a cook? Hustle her into a hansom 'Oh, bah! these are not modern methods. 'Il n'y a rien tel que d'enlever, said Logan. 'I never shall stain the cause with police-courts, said Merton. 'It would be fatal.
She got as good as she gave, though, the wretched woman. 'You are a thief and a bad lot, I told her; 'you will get into the police-courts for all the things that you have stolen from the gentlemen, and she shut up." The clerk came out to speak to Schmucke. "Would you wish to be present, sir, when the seals are affixed in the next room?"
This Rescue Home is linked up with the Training School, so that the Cadets may have the opportunity of acquiring a practical knowledge of the class of work upon which they are to be engaged in after-life. Most of the girls in the Rescue Home have passed through the Police-courts, and been handed over to the care of the Army by magistrates.
But you will meet him no more at Mere Cognette's at one in the morning; for you will not leave this house, either of you, until you go to your respective destinations. Ha! it was you who ruined Fario, was it? you, who have narrowly escaped the police-courts Hold your tongue!" he said, seeing that Baruch was about to speak.
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