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Updated: June 9, 2025
True, he had learnt in the eighth commandment, when a boy, the words, "Thou shalt not steal"; but these better-informed guests at Mr Rothwell's seemed able to take a flying leap over this scriptural barrier without any trouble, so he swallowed his scruples and his master's wine at the same time, and thought he should like to have an opportunity of turning a snug little legacy of a hundred pounds, left him by an uncle, into something handsomer by a lucky venture or two.
A few more weeks and "The Firs" was untenanted. But, in the midst of all this darkness, there shone forth a ray of heavenly light. It was near midnight of the day when the sale of Mr Rothwell's effects had taken place at "The Firs."
Let us look into two very different houses on the morning of January 6th. Mr Rothwell's place is called "The Firs," from a belt of those trees which shelter the premises on the north. All is activity at "The Firs" on Twelfth-day morning.
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