The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 155: what you’re looking at

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132 REYNOLDS’ WORKS at the time, but having no suspicion, and thinking as how it was all right and that he had got into unkimmon good and respectable company, it wasn’t much to be wondered at if the old feller was thrown completely off his guard.”’ ‘And how did you hear all this, Toby? ” inquired one of the company; ‘ how did you get ’old of it, old chap? Tell us.”’ “Cos why I knows summut of Chubb’s servant-gal and she told me all about it. There is a gentleman which goes to see the old man — Carnabie that’s his name again, and this genelman, it seems, called at the house last night just at the very moment Barney the Burker was leaving it.” ‘Well, and I ’spose the traps have had the office tipped 7em, eh? ” ‘Ah! you may be pretty sure of that,’’ responded Toby, ‘but it was all done in a very snug and quiet way, so that the business might not get into the papers, for this Carnabie is a parish clerk somewhere down in the country, and of course it would not be respectable for such on old file to be knowed to get hisself so stupid drunk and to make such a fool of hisself.”’ ‘Ah! the Burker’s a clever cove,’ said another of the company. ‘“ What a hand he must be at a disguise! Blow me, what a hand! ”’ | “IT should have knowed him,” exclaimed the man who answered to the name of Toby. ‘“‘ There’s never a disguise that he could have put on so good as to prevent me from twigging on him.”’ Here the Burker, having finished his refreshments, thought he had heard enough, but he had very little fear indeed of being recognized by Toby, notwithstanding all the fellow’s boasting. Indeed, exhilarated by the malt liquor he had imbibed, the miscreant chuckled inwardly at the opportunity of thus putting the boaster to the test, and rising from his seat, he walked more slowly through the room than when he had entered it. Toby stared at him, but only with a passing curiosity, and not with the faintest suspicion; so that the Burker issued from the public-house chuckling even more blithely than before. He now continued his way toward Pimlico, and he entered a narrow and somewhat obscure street just as a neighbouring church clock was striking eleven. One side of the street was formed by a wall belonging to the grounds of some mansion, ECORNICLIOO KS (E(0)