Sentence:  […] ‘Well,' says I, ‘Cassidy,' I says, <!-- [sic] repetition --> ‘ye've been up again th' pa-apers call <WSD>hawt</WSD> finance,' I says. <!-- [sic] lack of paragraph breaks, here and later -->   ‘What th' divvle's that?' says he.   ‘Well,' says I, ‘it ain't burglary, an' it ain't obtaining money be <!-- [sic] "be", not "by" --> false pretinses, an' it ain't manslaughter,' I says.   ‘It's what ye might call a judicious seliction fr'm th' best features iv thim ar-rts,' I says. […] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  High; "in later use", <span class="use-with-mention">eye dialect spelling of <span class="mention">haut</span> or <span class="mention">haute</span></span>.