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"No," she answered softly, without turning, "what should I hear? I only know he's gone. How should I hope to hear anything any more?" "I I thought he was goin' t' marry you." "So he was, but I couldn't let him marry a thief's sister," she said in the same low, even voice. "Ah!" cried Spike, writhing, "why did he go an' tell ye about me after he told me he never would why did he tell ye?"
Then a reply came in a voice that he hardly recognized as Barney's; it was so fierce, and so full of half-repressed anger. "Yes, it air Barney, ef ye hev any call ter know." "How did ye git away, Barney? how did ye git away?" exclaimed Nick, with a joyous sense of relief. "A thief's word cl'ared me!" This bitter cry came up to Nick, sharp and distinct, through the dark stillness.
Galloway lingered somewhere behind. Jenkins truehearted Jenkins, in the black handkerchief still was doubly respectful to Arthur, and rose to welcome him; a faint hectic of pleasure illumining his face at the termination of the charge. "Who said our office was going to be put down for a thief's!" uttered Roland. "Old Galloway's a trump! Here's your place, Arthur." Arthur did not take it.
"With one exception the only one I can think of Dr. Watts, who has asked the senseless question 'Why should I deprive my neighbour Of his goods against his will? Fancy that as an argument for Honesty! His position seems to be 'I'm only honest because I see no reason to steal. And the thief's answer is of course complete and crushing.
Think you I believe that a brace of lions turned sextons and helped Anthony bury Paul of Thebes? that Patrick, a Scotch saint, stuck a goat's beard on all the descendants of one that offended him? that certain thieves, having stolen the convent ram, and denying it, St. Pol de Leon bade the ram bear witness, and straight the mutton bleated in the thief's belly?
The spectacle of this injustice, this unheard-of violence, is what has converted my rectitude into barbarity; my reason into brute force; my honor into violence, like an assassin's or a thief's; this spectacle, senora, is what impels me to disregard your law, what impels me to trample it under foot, braving every thing. This which appears to you lawlessness is obedience to an unescapable law.
It looked to me a little blotched, but if I'd been called on to name it, I'd called it a thief's brand. If these gentlemen claim them, though, it'll only take a minute to cut them out." "This outfit needn't get personal and fling out their insults," retorted the claimant of the "Window Sash" brand, "for I'll claim my own if there were a hundred of you.
Leo ran wildly about sniffing for the donkey; but when he found that he had really disappeared, he knew the Camel Driver must have stolen him. He was terribly angry. He stood by the water-jar and roared and lashed his tail, gnashing his jaws as he remembered the thief's wicked face. Now in the midst of his rage out came Gerasimus.
"Well!" said Cobb impatiently, stilling the thief's whimpering protests with a quick grip of the hand that held him. "My watch," murmured Savinien, still smiling though he were pleased and relieved to be the victim of a theft. "But let him go." "Let him go! Oh no," said Cobb. "I'll hand him over to the police and we'll get the watch out of him." "The watch is nothing," said Savinien.
Without hurry, he deposited a little pile of coins on the edge of the dressing-table and laid the trousers aside; then, with his long thief's hands hanging open in obvious innocence, he turned and saw that his master had waked in his usual uncanny fashion, returning from slumber to full consciousness with no interval of drowsiness and half-wakefulness.
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