Looking at the matter in a professional point of view, I don't hesitate to say that we have managed our business with Mr.James Smith to perfection.

We have produced him at the right time, and we are going to get rid of him at the right time.

By to-night he will be on his way to foreign parts with Number Two, and he won't show his nose in England again if he lives to the age of Methuselah." It was a relief to hear that and it was almost as great a comfort to find, from what Mr.Dark said next, that my mistress need fear nothing that Josephine could do for the future.
The charge of theft, on which she was about to be tried, did not afford the shadow of an excuse in law any more than in logic for alluding to the crime which her master had committed.

If she meant to talk about it she might do so in her place of transportation, but she would not have the slightest chance of being listened to previously in a court of law.
"In short," said Mr.Dark, rising to take his leave, "as I have told you already, William, it's checkmate for marmzelle.

She didn't manage the business of the robbery half as sharply as I should have expected.