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The Astonisher then drew aside the little curtain with a grand flourish, and her customer beheld an indistinct figure of a bloated face with a mustache, with black eyes and black hair; it was a hang-dog, thief-like face, and one that he would not have passed in the street without involuntarily putting his hands on his pockets to assure himself that all was right.
'And you carry such a sum about you, and have not so much as counted it! If you are not a thief, you must allow you are very thief-like. 'And yet, madam, the money is legitimately mine, said I. She took one of the bills and held it up. 'Is there any probability, now, that this could be traced? she asked.
He stepped into the room, found a lucifer-box, shut the shutters, lighted a candle, and went peering about amongst the banker's papers, to see if he could find a clue to his intentions; and, as he pottered and peered, he quaked as well: a detector by dishonest means feels thief-like, and is what he feels.
One day it was to a luncheon that she went, in a costume by Redfern; the next night to a ball, in a frock direct from Paris; again to an "At Home," or concert, or dinner- party. Loafers and passers-by would stop to stare at a haggard, red-eyed woman, dressed as for a drawing-room, slipping thief-like in and out of her own door.
He had advanced, thief-like, but a few steps, he had felt but for a moment the welcome warmth of the fire, when the figure of Antonina, still extended insensible upon the floor, caught his eye; he approached it with eager curiosity, and, raising the girl on his arm, looked at her with a long and rigid scrutiny.
"And you carry such a sum about you, and have not so much as counted it! If you are not a thief, you must allow you are very thief-like." "And yet, madam, the money is legitimately mine," said I. She took one of the bills and held it up. "Is there any probability, now, that this could be traced?" she asked.
But there was no help for it unless he desired to slink back to the camp he had just abandoned with such thief-like stealth. Percy set his teeth. "Not while I've got arms to pull with!" Before buckling to his task he glanced about. On his left rose the familiar shores of Tarpaulin.
She found her feet, and shoes to put them in, before she was clear about her own intentions; then in all haste got herself into as much clothing as would cover the risks of meeting the few early risers possible at such an hour it could but be some chance groom or that young gardener and, opening her door with thief-like stealth, stole out through the stillness night had left behind, past the doors of sleepers who were losing the sweetest of the day.
Though a desperate disregard for anything like property rights had prompted the sudden snatch and the thief-like dash for cover, I am glad to be able to say that common honesty, or some shadowy simulacrum of it, revived presently and sent me back to the hotel, though not without terrible foot-draggings, you may be sure.
Chillingworth; "but thief I should say, for it was somewhat thief-like to break into another man's house and carry off the furniture." "A pirate a regular land shark." "Something that is not the same as an honest man, Jack; but, at all events, we have beaten him back this time." "Yes," said Jack, "the ship's cleared; no company is better than bad company, doctor."
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