There is another class of adepts, such as sleight of hand performers, slack rope dancers, teachers of animals to perform extraordinary tricks; in short, those persons who delude the senses, and practise harmless deceptions on spectators, included under the common appellation of jugglers.

He looked at Sleight with the convinced air of a resolute man who had at last taken a disagreeable step but was willing to stand by the consequences.

With a vague idea of entering into immediate negotiations with Mr. Sleight for the sale of the shipas a direct way out of his present perplexity, he bent his steps towards the financier's office, but paused and turned back before reaching the door.

It is much more a matter of sleight than strength.

"Well!" said Sleight without looking up.

The fatal facility with which Mr. Gladstone multiplies expressions stately and sonorous, but of indeterminate meaning, eminently qualifies him to practise this sleight on himself and on his readers.

Such talents had he, such a gleering eye, And such a cunning sleight in villany.