_From water-colour drawings by_ EDMUND J. SULLIVAN
'As I read over the lives of these robbers and _Frontispiece_
pickpockets, strange doubts began to arise in my
mind about virtue and crime'
'Fool, indeed! . . . or I'll forfeit the box' _page_ 8
'Once I saw him standing in the middle of a dusty 32
road'
'A wild grimy figure of a man . . . fashioning a 96
piece of iron'
'There's night and day, brother, both sweet 186
things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet
things; there's likewise a wind on the heath.
Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to
die?'
'All safe with me; I never peach, and scorns a 224
trap; so now, dear, God bless you!'
'I am willing to encourage merit, sir; . . . I 240
have determined that you shall translate my book
of philosophy'
'The bar of the gate' 416
Mrs. Herne 512
'The blow which I struck the Tinker' 544
Isopel Berners 560
'The man in black' 600