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"His position is absurd, and the fellow is a fool as well as a knave." "I have distinctly stated that my claim is to be indemnification for the injury done to my noble master," replied the pirate, in reply to Scott's last remark. "I do not propose to rob you." "Call it blackmail then, if you please." "I do not know what that means." "Mr. Belgrave has nothing to do with your claim.
And you tell 'Lias Bennett that if he doesn't do the same, I'll pile manure all over that field of mine near his place, and stink out his summer renters so they'll never set foot here again." She shifted tactics as she encountered different adversaries and tried no blackmail on stubborn Miles Benton, whom she took pains to see the next time he came back to Greenford for a visit.
The fact was that, with nations as with individuals, when the payment of blackmail is once begun there is no end to it. The appearance, however, of our little squadron in the Mediterranean showed at once the superiority of a policy of force over one of cowardly submission.
"Well?" he looked at me uncomfortably. "Blackmail's a crime, you know, Edwards. A woman capable of it, might be capable of murder." "You've got the wrong word there, Boyne. This wasn't exactly blackmail." "What, then?" "The girl I never liked her never thought she was good enough for Worth but she was engaged to him, and in this I think she was fighting for her hand."
Columns and columns, endlessly, day in, day out; the Paliser Case dragged from one court to another, the stench of it exceeded only by that of the Huns! But, by comparison, blackmail, however bitter, was sweet. When one may choose between honey and gall, decision is swift. "What'll she take?" Jeroloman, who had left his hat on the malachite bench in the hall, smoothed his gloves.
He could use it, wedge-wise, with both the Warings in all his future dealings, by promising to reveal to one or other of them a matter of importance and probable money-value, and he could use it also as a perpetual threat to hold over Colonel Kelmscott, if ever it should be needful to extort blackmail from the possessor of Tilgate, or to thwart his schemes by some active interference.
"He's all ready to do it, and it'd be a money-maker from the start." "But," I went on, "you must assume that he has no intention of building, that he is only making an elaborate bluff. How do you know but that he wants to get this right of way and charter so that he can blackmail you and your concerns, not merely once, but year after year?
"I'd break with him, gladly, if he'd cease to blackmail me about the Field matter," said Fowler. "Good God! How many of us are there who've not committed sins that we never forgive ourselves?" "None of us!" said Enoch. "Mr. Fowler, why did you break with me?" "Didn't you do your best to undermine me with the President?
Your account with Morley & Gard stands you in one hundred thousand dollars, and it will be more if you don't disturb the present investment for a few days." Mrs. Marteen's eyes were wide. "What are you doing this for?" she said calmly. "That wasn't the bargain. I'll not touch a penny more." "Why did I do it? Because I won't have any question of blackmail between us.
Well, it occurred to me to treat that Quatrone gang to some of its own medicine by stealing their ringleader." "There's poetic justice in the idea that is, if Narcone was really connected with the disappearance of the child." "Oh, he was connected with it all right. Ordinary blackmail was getting too slow for the outfit, so they went after a good ransom.
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