"Would you have committed theft ?" "Theft be hanged!" was the reply.

"It ain't thieving to loot the dead.
I guess a corpse hasn't got any use for jewels.

You bet I'd have gummed straightways onto that mummy, when I brought it from Malta in the old Diver, had I known it was a jeweler's shop of sorts.

Huh! Two emeralds, and I never knew.

I could kick myself." "You are a blackguard," gasped the astonished Professor.
"Oh, shucks!" was the elegant retort, "give it a rest.