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"What a cowardly attitude!" Lavinia declared contemptuously. "You allow yourself to be blackmailed like a common criminal." Orsi laughed, his equilibrium quickly restored. "I warned you that a stranger could not understand," he reminded her.
As her mind cleared, she recalled what had passed, and said almost in a whisper: "Did I dream, or did you tell me that horrible man is not my father?" "I told you so. He is a black-hearted, vindictive miscreant, who successfully blackmailed you, by practising a vile imposture." "Oh! are you quite sure?" "Perfectly sure.
Watling has got him out of that libel suit." "Carter Ives is dead," Perry would add, sarcastically, "let bygones be bygones." It was well known that Mr. Tallant, in the early days of his newspaper, had blackmailed Mr. Ives out of some hundred thousand dollars.
"But surely," said I, "the fellow must be within the grasp of the law?" "Technically, no doubt, but practically not. What would it profit a woman, for example, to get him a few months' imprisonment if her own ruin must immediately follow? His victims dare not hit back. If ever he blackmailed an innocent person, then, indeed, we should have him; but he is as cunning as the Evil One.
A very different assembly now occupied its greasy lengths vice the former habitués of the salon, now dispersed, dead, robbed, ruined, held to ransom, or cruelly blackmailed. Dealers. Money-lenders. Dearman's coolies.
It accused members of the Cabinet, of our Senate, diplomats, business men of national interest, judges of the Valencia courts, private secretaries, clerks, hired bullies, and filibusters. Men the trust could not bribe it had blackmailed. Those it could not corrupt, and they were pitifully few, it crushed with some disgraceful charge.
The push-cart pedlers, blackmailed and driven from pillar to post, saw it. They had escaped from unbearable tyranny in their old home to find a worse where they thought to be free; for to their oppressors yonder at least their women were sacred. It is difficult to approach calmly what is left of the diabolical recital.
There was high revel in the lodge room at the Union House that night, not only over the killing of the manager and engineer of the Crow Hill mine, which would bring this organization into line with the other blackmailed and terror-stricken companies of the district, but also over a distant triumph which had been wrought by the hands of the lodge itself.
Scandalous exposure and that forged letter business oh, that was the mother prosecution hushed up somehow. Ought to be serving her fourteen years and that business of poor Farrars, the banker got hold of some of his secrets and blackmailed him till he blew his brains out " It was so exciting that I clean forgot the bishop, till a low gasp at my elbow startled me.
And besides, since his interview with Michael, the idea wore a less attractive countenance. Was Michael the man to be blackmailed? and was Morris the man to do it? Grave considerations. "It's not that I'm afraid of him," Morris so far condescended to reassure himself; "but I must be very certain of my ground, and the deuce of it is, I see no way. How unlike is life to novels!
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