�������t¶��

In such places, unaware or off one’s guard, it can seem that beauty alone might atone for the ignoble.

And never for a second must one be off one's guard for one's watch and money and even hanky.

The general idea is to stand perfectly still for a little time, in a kind of general, public, disinterested way, and then suddenly, when one is off one’s guard and not looking, so to speak, take a peek backwards into one’s self.

As if I, Edwin Kippen, was likely to be off guard in business hours, as if it were possible to be off one’s guard and get one’s living, Bermondsey way.

There was a confiding air of bonne camaraderie about the fellow which completely put one off one's guard.