. Richard, to carry one's
handkerchief in one's hat - I have heard that it keeps the head too warm - but
in every other point of view, its being there, is extremely satisfactory -
ex-tremely so.«
    An exclamation, at once from Richard Swiveller, Miss Sally, and Kit himself,
cut the lawyer short. He turned his head, and saw Dick standing with the
bank-note in his hand.
    »In the hat?« cried Brass in a sort of shriek.
    »Under the handkerchief, and tucked beneath the lining,« said Dick, aghast
at the discovery.
    Mr. Brass looked at him, at his sister, at the walls, at the ceiling, at the
floor - everywhere but at Kit, who stood quite stupefied and motionless.
    »And this,« cried Sampson, clasping his hands, »is the world that turns upon
its own axis, and has Lunar influences, and revolutions round Heavenly Bodies,
and various games of that sort! This is human natur, is it! Oh natur, natur!
This is the miscreant that I was going to benefit with all my little arts, and
that, even now, I feel so much for, as to wish to let him go! But,« added Mr.
Brass with greater fortitude, »I am myself a lawyer, and bound to set an example
in carrying the laws of my happy country into effect. Sally my dear, forgive me,
and catch hold of him on the other side. Mr. Richard sir, have the goodness to
run and fetch a constable. The weakness is past and over, sir, and moral
strength returns. A constable, sir, if you please!«
 

                                   Chapter LX

Kit stood as one entranced, with his eyes opened wide and fixed upon the ground,
regardless alike of the tremulous hold which Mr. Brass maintained on one side of
his cravat, and of the firmer grasp of Miss Sally upon the other; although this
latter detention was in itself no small inconvenience, as that fascinating
woman, besides screwing her knuckles inconveniently into his throat from time to
time, had fastened upon him in the first instance with so tight a grip that even
in the disorder and distraction of his thoughts he could not divest himself of
an uneasy sense of choking. Between the brother and sister he remained in this
posture, quite unresisting and passive, until Mr. Swiveller returned, with a
police constable at his heels.
    This functionary, being, of course, well used to such scenes; looking upon
all kinds of robbery
