Robert Hewett is altogether an exceptional being; he is head and shoulders above the men with whom he mixes; he is clever, he is remarkably good-looking.

If anyone in this world, of a truth Robert Hewett may reckon on impunity when he sets his wits against the law.

Why, his arrest and punishment is an altogether inconceivable thing; he never in his life had a charge brought against him.' Again and again it came back to that.

Every novice in unimpassioned crime has that thought, and the more self-conscious the man, the more impressed with a sense of his own importance, so much the weightier is its effect with him.
We know in what spirit John Hewett regarded rebels against the law.

Do not imagine that any impulse of that nature actuated his son.