But the active and intelligent servants of the law checked them by a vigorous grip of their arms, and crying "Silence!" in their most majestic and menacing tones, reduced them at last to order.
"See that ?" whispered the professor to the doctor; "most characteristic.
Simulation is of the very essence of their race.

Oh, this is beautiful! Did you catch what they said just then?
It was an expression in the Maeso-Shemitic dialect, still to be found in the south of Spain and on the old Moorish coast of Africa.

I know it well.

Well, constable ?" "If you please, your honour, I was passing near the school about half- past five this afternoon along with my brother officer when I observe the defendants crawling along beside the wall.

I keeps my eye on them, and observe them going in the direction of Deadman's Lane.