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INTRODUCTION
There are other manifestations of greatness than to relieve suffering or to wreck an empire. Julius Csar and John Howard are not the only heroes who have smiled upon the world. I... -
Chapter 71-75
Chapter 71As expected, as soon as they sat at the mahjong table, the three began to make faces. Qiao Bailu sat next to Xie Jiayuan and gave him instructions, but she was only half-... -
JONATHAN WILD
WHEN Jonathan Wild and the Count La Ruse, in Fielding’s narrative, took a hand at cards, Jonathan picked his opponent’s pocket, though he knew it was empty, while the Count, from s... -
I THE SWITCHER
DAVID HAGGART was born at Canonmills, with no richer birthright than thievish fingers and a left hand of surpassing activity. The son of a gamekeeper, he grew up a long-legged, re... -
GEORGE BARRINGTON
AS Captain Hind was master of the road, George Barrington was (and remains for ever) the absolute monarch of pickpockets. Though the art, superseding the cutting of purses, had be... -
INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR.
Recitation with dramatic energy by men whose business it was to travel from one great house to another and delight the people by the way, was usual among us from the first. The sc... -
CHAPTER XVI
Transactions of the colony until 18th of December 1791, when I quitted it, with an Account of its state at that time. The Gorgon had arrived on the 21st of September, and the hour... -
II GENTLEMAN HARRY
DAMN ye both! stop, or I will blow your brains out!’ Thus it was that Harry Simms greeted his victims, proving in a phrase that the heroic age of the rumpad was no more. Forgotte... -
CHAPTER XV.
Transactions of the Colony to the end of November, 1791. The extreme dryness of the preceding summer has been noticed. It had operated so far in the beginning of June that we dre... -
Chapter 73: Great and Terrible News
"It's okay my sweet baby girl, your father will be with you in the city while your mother will be back from work. I promise.""Well be safe soon. Just stay close to me.""They are in...