... uninjured, and went back to the toll-house. It is this sort of thing that casts a sort of halo about even such scoundrels as Dick Turpin. But Ward, like Brady, another of the better class of villain, had some thing of chivalry. This is Mr. Boxall's account ...

... have a series of delightful perver sions of old-fashioned romance. The penny-plain twopence-coloured literature of the Dick Turpin type was the real inspirer of Sir William Gilbert's fancy. I admit that the great mass of people may take it on its own merits ...