—"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. You are not unlike Pandora. ‘She has constituted herself leader of
the émigrés here, and feels justifiably slighted by having taken the pretend
Valades under her wing. I suppose I believe in God. I may
want you. ’
‘How do you do?’ Gerald said pleasantly, stepping from the pillared portico
and coming down the shallow stairway. Apologizing for their detention, he answered the questions put to him respecting
the boys, by positively denying that any such prisoners had been entrusted to his
charge, but offered to conduct him to every cell in the building to prove the truth
of his assertion. He had but to give his orders. I have strength enough to drag myself there, and I do not want to return.
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