—"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. I don’t believe any one could have traced us here. This, then, must be the person whom he had seen spring upon the western platform at the time of the collision between the boats. Her eyes were perhaps a little brighter than usual, the firelight played about her hair, there seemed to him to be a sudden softening of the straight firm mouth. As she came close, he took a pace forward and seized her from behind, one strong arm clamping her tight against his chest, the free hand seizing her about the mouth, stifling the cry that gurgled in her throat. There were two sisters, you know. These realizations rushed into Ann Veronica’s mind and hardened her heart against him. ‘Could she have been a spy, after all?’ ‘Oh, she’s not a spy,’ Gerald answered, almost absently. He was looking pale and ill. On the stranger's appearance, she was seated near the window busily occupied with her needle. “The very question shows your ignorance,” he declared. ‘I trust you are cursing Valade, and not Melusine.
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