thimblerig

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How terribly alike are all human rogueries, whether the scene be a conference at Vienna, or the tent of a thimblerig at Ascot!

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A Tory told me it was a second edition of the thimblerig speech, which, if so, will not do him good.

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"Well, well! and did they ever come the thimblerig on you?"

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