"And after a bit you guv' it me to get the money.

Didn't you, now ?" "I did." "And they do say if a poor man had done it, it'd been stealing, for sartain." "And I'm a poor man,--the poorest in all Hogglestock; and, therefore, of course, it is stealing.

Of course I am a thief.

Yes; of course I am a thief.

When did not the world believe the worst of the poor ?" Having so spoken, Mr.Crawley rose from his chair and hurried out of the cottage, waiting no further reply from Dan Morris or his wife.
And as he made his way slowly home, not going there by the direct road, but by a long circuit, he told himself that there could be no sympathy for him anywhere.