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Emily, he decided, had given him up for lost and married probably a navy officer in command of a battle-ship. Burdett and Sons had cast him off forever. Possibly his disappearance had caused them to suspect him; even now they might be regarding him as a defaulter, as a fugitive from justice. His accounts, no doubt, were being carefully overhauled.
When at last the assembly refused to vote a civil list and other necessary expenditures, the government were obliged to use the casual and territorial revenues such as the proceeds of the sales and leases of Crown lands and these funds were inadequate for the purpose. So carelessly were these funds managed that one receiver-general, engaged in business, became a heavy defaulter.
During this colloquy my client stood between us, looking from one to the other. I well knew that his way of thinking would be with my testimony, and that the gilt name on the edition de luxe had done little towards convincing him of Mr. Allen's innocence. To his mind there was nothing horrible or incongruous in the idea that a well-known author should be a defaulter. It was perfectly possible.
She has nothing left but her husband's income. All that papa gave her when she married was lost as your money was lost. It was in the same hands, and it is all gone. Arthur was more shocked than surprised to hear it. 'I had hoped it might not be so bad, he said: 'but I had feared a heavy loss there, knowing the connection between her husband and the defaulter. 'Yes. It is all gone.
Vatinelle, to whom, unfortunately, he owed all his troubles and some troubles are of a kind that resemble a protested bill while the defaulter is yet solvent, in that they bear interest. It will not be out of place to call attention to one particularly distressing symptom of liver complaint.
Mr Nogoe, the convivial defaulter, who is a gentleman of fifty, who has seen the world, and knows how to manage it, is decidedly of Bowley's opinion that, as a general rule, credit is a bad plan; inasmuch as, so far as his experience goes in the public line, to afford it to your customers, is the first step towards losing it yourself.
He seemed to enter into it more fully, as if he had a mischievous perception of Matt's uneasiness, and chose to torment him; but then apparently he changed his mind, and dealt with other aspects of their common interest so seriously and sympathetically, that Matt parted from him with a regret that he could not remove the last barrier between them, and tell the lawyer that he concerned himself so anxiously in the affairs of that wretched defaulter because his dearest hope was that the daughter of the criminal would some day be his wife.
The American defaulter was a sort of hero in Bird's fancy; he had heard much of that character; he would have experienced no shock at realizing him in Northwick; he would have accounted for Northwick, and excused him to himself, if need be. The doctor observed a professional reticence; his affair was with Northwick's body, which he had treated skilfully.
"Making me, and the rest of us, accomplices of a dastardly defaulter. If I ever run afoul of that crowd again if I ever get my hands on them won't I make them smart for their trick!" Nor were the submarine boys much less angry over the part they had all been made to play. In the days that followed, the need of work drove away thoughts of the trick played by the Millers.
Then he was declared a defaulter, and in due process of time his name was struck off the club books, with some serious increase of the ignominy hitherto sustained. During the last fortnight or more Captain Scarborough's name had been subjected to many remarks and to much disgrace. But this non-payment of the money lost at whist was considered to be the turning-point.
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