Men must live; and if the folks in authority will outlaw them, why, they must jog along then as best they may.

I don't think they do more harm than they can well help." Mistress Devenish shook her head in silence over the rather wild talk of her son, but she said nothing.

She was used to Jack's ways, and she was proud of his spirit, though afraid sometimes that it would lead him into trouble.

She had noted of late that he had been unwontedly absent from home during the long evenings of the summer just gone by, and had wondered what took him off, for he seldom gave account of himself.

She noted, too, that he spoke in a very different fashion from others of the robber band that was such a terror to the village folks.