Regarding Mr. Derby being expelled from his boarding house for stealing. Transcription: some suspected, but nothing was said openly, only to our landlady [Susan Boley]. As afore written most of them left the house. Four days ago a boarder in a small, adjoining room (whither Defby had no business to go) missing a shirt, went into the theif ?s [sic] room and found him abed with it on. He d____d him a little, demanded restitution and told the folks at breakfast. Nevertheless thief had the brass to appear at his meals throughout that day, to address and converse with the weak Phillips unchecked,
Regarding Mr. Derby being expelled from his boarding house for stealing. Transcription: some suspected, but nothing was said openly, only to our landlady [Susan Boley]. As afore written most of them left the house. Four days ago a boarder in a small, adjoining room (whither Defby had no business to go) missing a shirt, went into the theif ?s [sic] room and found him abed with it on. He d____d him a little, demanded restitution and told the folks at breakfast. Nevertheless thief had the brass to appear at his meals throughout that day, to address and converse with the weak Phillips unchecked, to spend the evening in the parlor with the other folks, and finally to depart next afternoon. Billington, it appears, went out with him, just after breakfast. Both he and [James] Morris talk pity of the fellow. I think the pity lies in the direction of the honest woman who, working hard to gain a living, loses has three or four paying boarders by the advent of this sneaking hound. I hate scoundrels, for their existence means injury and injustice to innocent people. I was on the look out for a chance of Derby ?s addressing me, when I would first have stared him dead in the face with as much insult as I could put in it and, on his repeating his words, or resenting my reception of ?em, I ?d have told him what he was in the hardest kind of English, even if there ?d have been a Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 154, November 29, 1859 . 29 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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