| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1142 |
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instructions - to the `yard' when the `job' was finished had not been missed. Another circumstance which helped to compensate for the blinds was that the brass fittings throughout the house, finger-plates, sash-lifts and locks, bolts and door handles, which were supposed to be all new and which the customer had paid a good price for - were really all the old ones which Misery had had re-lacquered and refixed. There was nothing unusual about this affair of the blinds, for Rushton and Misery robbed everybody. They made a practice of annexing every thing they could lay their hands upon, provided it could be done without danger to themselves. They never did anything of a heroic or dare-devil character: they had not the courage to break into banks or jewellers' shops in the middle of the night, or to go out picking pockets: all their robberies were of the sneak-thief order. At one house that they `did up' Misery made a big haul. He had to get up into the loft under the roof to see what was the matter with the water |
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