"If everyone were to go and mix themselves up in other people's business, there would be no end of trouble.

I suppose next you will say that, if you heard me arranging with the constable to make a capture of some burglars, you would think it a grand thing to put on your hat to run off to warn them." "Oh, grandpapa, how can you say such a thing!" the girl said.

"Burglars and smugglers are quite different.

Burglars are wicked men, and thieves and robbers.

Smugglers are not, they are only trying to get goods in without paying duty." "They try to rob the king, my dear, and in the eyes of the law are just as criminal as burglars.