Oh, Paul, you know not--you know not what a glorious life is that of a highwayman; but you shall taste it one of these days,--you shall, on my honour.
"I now lived with a club of honest fellows.

We called ourselves 'The Exclusives,'-- for we were mighty reserved in our associates, and only those who did business on a grand scale were admitted into our set.

For my part, with all my love for my profession, I liked ingenuity still better than force, and preferred what the vulgar call swindling, even to the highroad.

On an expedition of this sort, I rode once into a country town, and saw a crowd assembled in one corner; I joined it, and my feelings!--beheld my poor friend Viscount Dunshunner just about to be hanged! I rode off as fast as I could,--I thought I saw Jack Ketch at my heels.

My horse threw me at a hedge, and I broke my collar-bone.