But have you made up your mind, in earnest, to relieve me of such trifling encumbrances as those you have just mentioned ?" "I should be strangely neglectful of the duties of my station, not to speak of the discourtesy of such a neglect to yourself, were I to do otherwise; always supposing you burdened with such encumbrances.

I put it to yourself, whether such would not be the effect of my omission." "It most certainly would, most frank and candid of all the outlaws.

Your punctiliousness on this point of honor entitles you, in my mind, to an elevation above and beyond all others of your profession.

I admire the grace of your manner, in the commission of acts which the more tame and temperate of our kind are apt to look upon as irregular and unlovely.
You, I see, have the true notion of the thing." The ruffian looked with some doubt upon the youth--inquiringly, as if to account in some way for the singular coolness, not to say contemptuous scornfulness, of his replies and manner.

There was something, too, of a searching malignity in his glance, that seemed to recognise in his survey features which brought into activity a personal emotion in his own bosom, not at variance, indeed, with the craft he was pursuing, but fully above and utterly beyond it.