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But he only caught her in his arms and held her so close to his own heart that the wild palpitation of her bosom was calmed against its steadiness. Her arms went gropingly round his neck and clutched him as if he were the one stable thing that stood against an allied ferocity of wind and wave. "You needed me," he said. "And when you need me I come even if I have to come like a burglar."
And as the car sped along Madison Avenue, gradually drawing nearer to the house which she was going to enter disguised as it were, like a burglar, she felt cold chills run up and down her spine the same sensation that one experiences when one rings the bell of a dentist's where one has gone to have a tooth extracted.
I've run away to be a bushranger. DICK HADDON. P.S. Pursuit is useless. The widow sank upon the edge of the bed and mopped her tears with a snow-white apron. 'That means that I sha'n't see him for two days at least, she said, 'unless I'm either taken very ill or attacked by a burglar. Why, why can't a poor woman be allowed to bring up her own children in her own way?
We all stood in perfect silence. So did the thing. It looked like a man, only it was a very big and broad man, and also a very low and stumpy one, as I said. Why he should be crawling along in that open field, on his hands and knees, was something I could not understand. Unless, and this gave me another chilly feeling unless he were a real burglar.
And what a good time I could have with it! They would never suspect me of taking it, and I could have it cashed and no one would ever know. So I got up in the middle of the night and started right there and then to be a burglar. I went on tiptoe as softly as I could, and was right in the middle of the kitchen floor when I stumbled over a little stool and it made a noise.
"And some one's let down the bottom length of ladder, but there ain't nobody in sight." "No," interjected Hickey, "'nd there wouldn't 've been if you'd been waitin' in the back yard all night." "Certainly not," Maitland agreed blandly; "especially if my burglar had known it. In which case I fancy he would have chosen another route by the roof, possibly."
Fields, On Friday evening last I white-cravated myself, took a carriage, and found myself at your door at 8 of the clock P. M. A cautious female responded to my ring, and opened the chained portal about as far as a clam opens his shell to see what is going on in Cambridge Street, where he is waiting for a customer. Her first glance impressed her with the conviction that I was a burglar.
The long, lank figure of Sut Simpson looked as if it was a shadow slowly stealing along the dark face of the rock, followed by that of Mickey and the lad. They were as silent as phantoms, each walking as tenderly and carefully as though he was a burglar breaking into the house of some sleeping merchant, whose slumbers were as light as down.
And that burglar had the cheek to put his head in at the window and say, 'I'll give yer love to the kids and the missis' and he was off like winking, and there were Alice and Dora trying to pick up our robber, and asking him whether he was hurt, and where. He wasn't hurt at all, except a lump at the back of his head. And he got up, and we dusted the kitchen floor off him. Eliza is a dirty girl.
His name was put down as a director of several leading companies, and it was rumoured that in the event of his acquittal he would undertake a merger of all the great burglar protection corporations of the United States. The trial opened a week later, and lasted two months.
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