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Quotation from The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding
“applied his hands to the parson's pocket, and emptied it of his bottle-screw, which he carried out of the world in his hand”
The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 14
Even on the scaffold, under a shower of stones, Wild cannot stop thieving; the narrator presents it as perfect consistency of character.
Citation: "applied his hands to the parson's pocket, and emptied it of his bottle-screw, which he carried out of the world in his hand" — Henry Fielding, The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 14. (id fielding-jonathan-wild-q6)
