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Updated: June 29, 2025
It is remarkable that the observation which most of all shocks thieves, and convinces them at once both of the certainty and justice of a Providence is this, that the money which they amass by such unrighteous dealings never thrives with them; that though they thieve continually, they are, notwithstanding that, always in want, pressed on every side with fears and dangers, and never at liberty from the uneasy apprehensions of having incurred the displeasure of God, as well as run themselves into the punishments inflicted by the law.
What had he to do with this foul slough, we were all mired in? What if the Yankees did come, like incarnate devils, to thieve and burn and kill? This man would say "that ye resist not evil." He lived back there, pure and meek, with Jesus, in the old time. He would not dare to tell him he meant to fight with the boys in the Gap before morning.
"It beats me to understand how these beggars manage to find the money?" "Oh, they prowl round at night and thieve and are capable of the most daring theft. I've known them steal a whole lot of furniture out of a sitting-room, a man's evening clothes out of his dressing-room not forgetting his gold watch and chain and even tooth-brush and tumbler.
The poor boy looked up deprecatingly from under his limp and drooping hat-brim. All the crowd stood in silence, watching them. After a moment of this keen scrutiny, the deputy turned to the constable with an interrogative wave of the hand. "This hyar's the boy what war put through the winder-pane ter thieve from Blenkins," said Jim Dow. "Thar's consider'ble fac's agin him."
Every quarter-section will hold a house, and there will be chimneys in sight in every direction. Churches and better schools will follow. The roads will be planted with trees. There will be fences about the fields, and no Indians to thieve and kill. And this valley, the 'Jim, or the Missouri, will not be the edge of civilization, for the frontier will have moved far to the west.
"Still, in the end ?" "Oh, no, madame. He was never caught. He simply ceased to thieve." "I wonder why..." "I believe because he fell in love and considered good faith with the object of his affections incompatible with a career of crime." "So he gave up crime. How romantic! And the woman: did she appreciate the sacrifice?" "While she lived, yes, madame. Or so they say. Unfortunately, she died."
"Sometimes I think," he added, half to Eleanor and half to her father, "that there are people like that in this ancient stubbed land men like the bittern and the eagle, who will not be tamed. They come to you sometimes, but they will not be driven." "I see," said the knight thoughtfully. "But what of a man who will take a gift with one hand and thieve with the other?"
'A thief talking English, is it? Let's look at his charm. No, it's not a scapular, Bennett. He held out his hand. 'But have we any right to open it? A sound whipping 'I did not thieve, protested Kim. 'You have hit me kicks all over my body. Now give me my charm and I will go away. 'Not quite so fast.
At this rate, short of inspiration, it seems hardly possible to be both rich and honest; and the millionaire is under a far more continuous temptation to thieve than the labourer who gets his shilling daily for despicable toils. Are you surprised? It is even so. And you repeat it every Sunday in your churches.
Then it was that Cicely showed the courage of her blood. "Never, never!" she cried, turning on him with eyes ablaze. "Torture and slay me if you will, but my wealth you shall not thieve. I know not where these jewels are, but wherever they may be, there let them lie till my heirs find them, or they rot." The Abbot's face grew very evil. "Is that your last word, Cicely Foterell?" he asked.
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