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From his long speech the foreman of the jury could only have deduced "that it was housebreaking but not robbery, as the washerwomen had sold the linen for drink themselves; or, if there had been robbery, there had not been housebreaking." But obviously, he said just what was wanted, as his speech moved the jury and the audience, and was very much liked.
He knew that the spoil of the poor was in his houses; but he could not, after careful calculation, think of any way in which they could get it out of his houses without being arrested for housebreaking. He faced the future with a face flinty with pride and impenitence.
A tall figure immediately rose up from the other side of the hedge and joined him. "Well, Levi," said Foster, "I have kept my appointment; and now what would you have with me?" "I'll tell you, William," replied his companion. "You know I'm a marked man. The police are looking out for me on account of that housebreaking job more's the pity I ever had anything to do with it.
Large hoards of money were discovered, gold and silver plate, cases of watches, and various precious articles. Nothing, in short, portable or valuable was left. Old implements of housebreaking were discovered; and the thief-taker's most hidden depositories were laid bare. The work of plunder over, that of destruction commenced.
He isn't man enough to take a chance at housebreaking." "I don't know what you mean," she sighed. "Where shall I write?" Mr. Tutt cleared a space upon his desk, handed her a pad and dipped a pen in the ink while she took off her gloves. "Address the note to the bank," he directed. She did so. "Now say: 'Kindly deliver to Mr.
The morning he was to die, after having received the Sacrament, he was exhorted to make a confession of those crimes which he had committed, particularly as to housebreaking, in which he was thought to have been long concerned; thereupon he recollected himself a little, and told of six or seven houses which he had broken open, particularly General Groves's near St.
It will be a tight fit for you, Dudley, but I'll give you a good pull through, and you must hold your breath well in." "It's a kind of housebreaking," Dudley said, ripples of fun passing over his face; "I don't mind visiting sick people if we go in at their windows like this!" But Roy's little face was full of anxious gravity and purpose, and he checked Dudley's inclination to laugh at once.
"I think it is a matter of self-defence, for if you and Florence are so ambitious as to take violent possession of your neighbors' houses, it seemed to me there would be no end of complaints, and the best way to prevent further housebreaking was to give you a house where you could cook and sweep and exercise your domestic tastes to your hearts' content."
Anyhow, I read of two or three burglaries that winter which I unhesitatingly put down to Mr. Joseph I suppose there's style in housebreaking, as in other things and early the next spring an exciting bit of business occurred, which I knew to be his work by the description of the man. "He had broken into a big country house during the servants' supper-hour, and had stuffed his pockets with jewels.
"Passionate!" repeated Ned. "Well, I am a little choleric, I own it; but that is not so great a fault on the road as it would be in housebreaking. I don't know a thing that requires so much coolness and self-possession as cleaning out a house from top to bottom, quietly and civilly, mind you!" "That is the reason, I suppose, then," said Augustus, "that you altogether renounced that career.
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