In all probability she would scarcely recognize me; for her habits cannot much have improved her memory.

Would I could say as much for her neighbours! Were I to be seen in the purlieus of low thievery, you know, as well as I do, that some stealer of kerchiefs would turn informer against the notorious Captain Lovett." "What, then, takes you to town?
Ah! you turn away your face.

I guess! Well, Love has ruined many a hero before; may you not be the worse for his godship!" Clifford did not answer, and the conversation made a sudden and long pause; Tomlinson broke it.
"Do you know, Lovett," said he, "though I have as little heart as most men, yet I feel for you more than I could have thought it possible.
I would fain join you; there is devilish good tobacco in Germany, I believe; and, after all, there is not so much difference between the life of a thief and of a soldier." "Do profit by so sensible a remark," said Clifford.

"Reflect! how certain of destruction is the path you now tread; the gallows and the hulks are the only goals!" "The prospects are not pleasing, I allow," said Tomlinson; "nor is it desirable to be preserved for another century in the immortality of a glass case in Surgeons' Hall, grinning from ear to ear, as if one had made the merriest finale imaginable.

Well! I will sleep on it, and you shall have my answer tomorrow; but poor Ned ?" "Would he not join us ?" "Certainly not; his neck is made for a rope, and his mind for the Old Bailey.