The Life and Adventures of the Famous Moll Flanders, who was Born in Newgate ...: Written from Her Own Memorandums

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J. Cooke, 1765 - 358 pagina's
 

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Pagina 222 - The child had a little necklace on of gold beads, and I had my eye upon that, and in the dark of the alley I stooped, pretending to mend the child's clog that was loose, and took off her necklace, and the child never felt it, and so led the child on again. Here, I say, the devil put me upon killing the child in the dark alley, that it might not cry, but the very thought frighted me so that I was ready to drop down ; but I turned the child about and bade it go back again, for that was not its way...
Pagina 4 - But as this work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to read it and how to make the good uses of it which the story all along recommends to them, so it is to be...

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