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Now, gentlemen, resistance is useless; I must request that you each give me your card, and your word of honor that you will appear at Bow Street tomorrow morning." "What is all this about, sir?" he asked Mark, who was still standing on the table. "Two fellows here have been caught cheating." "What is your name and address, sir?"
They are Mohamedans, but not very strict, either in their religious or moral principles, violating oaths sworn upon the Koran, and cheating and thieving whenever they can. The love of money, however, is a strong stimulus to improvement, and where it exists, or can be created, the case is far more hopeful than when the wants and desires are both limited.
I had just arisen, to follow his example, when a furious uproar burst out at the card table. I saw Romayne spring up, and snatch the cards out of the General's hand. "You scoundrel!" he shouted, "you are cheating!" The General started to his feet in a fury. "You lie!" he cried. I attempted to interfere, but Romayne had already seen the necessity of controlling himself.
Even with the cheating to which the Negroes were subjected, it became difficult to keep them in debt, and they became more and more insistent in their demands for itemized statements. Nevertheless some of those whose cotton was sold in October, 1918, did not get any statement of any sort before July of the next year.
"I have been at several places where Hay scooped the pool, and it was all cheating." "If it was," said Hay, with quivering lips, "why didn't you denounce me then and there?" "Because I denounce you now," she said; "you're cooked, my man. These boys will see that the matter is made public."
I've loved you with all my heart and soul for two years, and you've been playing with me, and cheating me," broke out the young man, with a cry. "Oh, Blanche, Blanche, it's a hard thing, a hard thing!" and he covered his face with his hands, and sobbed behind them. Blanche thought, "Why didn't I tell him that night when Arthur warned me?" "Don't refuse her, Harry," cried Lady Clavering.
Everybody who has had experience of school-life knows that the average boy spends a great deal of his time in cheating the masters, lying to the authorities, and playing every sort and kind of mischievous or disreputable prank that comes into his head. But it is better to have this fact testified to by a man who has been in a position to observe large numbers of boys over a very extended period.
And yet, by robbing the wealthy merchants and by cheating the poor, these two evil companions had become rich, and it was in order to spend their ill-gotten gains in idle amusements that they sought out the village of Everlasting Happiness. "For here," said they, "we can surely find that joy which has been denied us in every other place.
"Oh no!" cried Joe, when Roughgrove interpreted the Indian's request, "keep him as a hostage he may be cheating us." "I do not see the impropriety of Joe's remark this time," said Glenn. "Ask him where he will go, if we suffer him to depart," said Boone. To Roughgrove's interrogation, the Indian made a passionate reply. He said the white men were liars. They were now quits.
Facing-both-ways the fellow with one eye on heaven and one on earth who sincerely preaches one thing and sincerely does another, and from the intensity of his unreality is unable either to see or feel the contradiction. He is substantially trying to cheat both God and the devil, and is in reality only cheating himself and his neighbours.
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