Some one had broken into the kitchen, most likely a burglar.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
In Holdich's "India" it is unfavourably compared with that in Bombay, but do you know, I almost prefer the classic style of Calcutta to the scientific rococco Bombay architecture, but I offer this opinion with the greatest diffidence, for I know the author of "India" is an artist-still-"I know what I like," as the burglar said when he took the spoons.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Her dress was of Indian muslin, priceless for all its simplicity; and she wore glittering in her hair, on her arms, and on her cream-white bosom, pearls, that, in quantity and quality would have made the fortune of any enterprising burglar.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice