He went into the study and sat down at his table, but not to write. When you've seized
him, cough thrice thus,—and two rough-looking gentlemen will make their
appearance. The phone did not ring. —"A
famous university," observes Ned Ward, in the London Spy, "where, if a man has
a mind to educate a hopeful child in the daring science of padding; the lightfingered subtlety of shoplifting: the excellent use of jack and crow; for the
silently drawing bolts, and forcing barricades; with the knack of sweetening; or
the most ingenious dexterity of picking pockets; let him but enter in this college
on the Common Side, and confine him close to his study but for three months;
and if he does not come out qualified to take any degree of villainy, he must be
the most honest dunce that ever had the advantage of such eminent tutors. He shrugged and, to Gerald’s relief, made to
leave at last. No, none at all. Maternal relations. Perhaps he had had money in the coat, back in Hong-Kong, and had
been robbed without knowing it.
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