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Thenceforth he was to be a leader and a master in that wild business of plunder, burning, blackmailing, and murder, which was opening upon Europe, and was to afford occupation for many thousands of adventurers of high and low degree. Mansfeld, reckless and profligate, had already changed his banner more than once.
Well, there you have the position, as clear as I can make it the husband an ignorant fool, the wife a cold sensualist with imbecile fears for I was such a fool that I should never have known what she was or was not and the blackmailing lover. And then the other lover came along.... Well, Edward Ashburnham was worth having.
Then, with a shrewd look at Viola, he replied: "Well, my dear, she isn't your kind, of course, but I've known her, and known of her, for several years. She, and those she associates with, work the de luxe game." "The de luxe game? What is it?" "In brief, it's a blackmailing scheme. A woman of the type of Miss Tighe, to give her one of her names, associates herself with some men.
The Solicitor-General opened the case, and then called his witnesses. One of the first was Edward Shelley, who in cross-examination admitted that he had been mentally ill when he wrote Mr. Wilde those letters which had been put in evidence. He was "made nervous from over-study," he said. Alfred Wood admitted that he had had money given him quite recently, practically blackmailing money.
Advertising, my son: that's the point to work at. In a way I'm sorry you let Sterne out." The ex-editor had left, a fortnight before, on a basis agreeable to himself and Hal, and McGuire Ellis had taken over his duties. "Certainly you had no reason to like Sterne, Dad." "For all that, he knew his job. Everything Sterne did had a dollar somewhere in the background. Even his blackmailing game.
He advanced another step. "Yes," he said, "I've got three things to say to you. One is that you're a contemptible, low-lived, blackmailing hound. The second is that before I get through with you I'm going to choke the truth out of your fat throat. And the third is that I'll see you in hell before I give you any such promise as you ask. Now, I'm going."
From here we see before us the wide vista of the individual gifts and talents: the underworld people are sometimes bragging of them, sometimes grafting with them, if not blackmailing, and often simply enjoying them with the sweet feeling of superiority. The powers turn in all valuable directions.
Edith said, joyfully; "I haven't mentioned it, yet; but I shall make a point of doing so unless you order two pounds of candy for me, at once. Well, I suppose what you meant was that Eleanor is stupid?" "Mary," said Henry Houghton, "your blackmailing daughter is displaying a glimmer of intelligence."
The girl had covered her face with her hands and was crying softly, and he moved towards her and put his arm about her shoulder. "Darling, it is nothing very terrible. Please don't go on like that." "Oh, you don't understand, you don't understand!" she wailed. "I wanted to catch Silva. I guessed that he was coming north on one of his blackmailing trips, and I followed him."
"I've come about a rather unpleasant matter, Sir James," she said as they shook hands. "I find that these children have been blackmailing you; and I've brought them to apologize. I I'm exceedingly distressed about it." "Oh, there's no need to be no need at all. It was rather a joke," Sir James protested quickly.
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