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"What are the revenues of the alcaide of Gibraltar?" he asked of two Christian captives he had taken. "We know not," they replied, "except that he is entitled to one animal out of every drove of cattle that passes his bounds." "Then Allah forbid that so brave a cavalier should be defrauded of his dues."
Beside, Cornelia had her full share in my happiness, and I will not let myself be defrauded of my share in her happiness not for a few words no! certainly not." This reflection a few times reiterated resulted in the following note MY DEAR CORNELIA: I want to say so much, that I cannot say anything but forgive me.
"I know nothing of the sort," cried Frederick. "I only know that I have been defrauded disgraced. Not by any act of my father's, or he would not lie quiet in his grave. My father always loved me." And the quick feeling natural to Major Harper made him hesitate unable to proceed. But soon he continued, vehemently: "I will find out this.
Kybird, who was troubled with asthma, was suffering untold agonies in a black satin dress which had been originally made for a much smaller woman, and had come into her husband's hands in the way of business. It got into hers in what the defrauded Mr.
Brownson, "by linking our cause with the ultra-democratic sentiment of the country, which had had from the time of Jefferson and Tom Paine something of an anti-Christian character; by professing ourselves the bold and uncompromising champions of equality; by expressing a great love for the people and a deep sympathy with the laborer, whom we represented as defrauded and oppressed by his employer; by denouncing all proprietors as aristocrats, and by keeping the more unpopular features of our plan as far in the background as possible, to enlist the majority of the American people under the banner of the Workingman's party; nothing doubting that, if we could once raise that party to power, we could use it to secure the adoption of our educational system."
"Not many of its citizens in the broader sense would ever see those works of art when they were here and shrined in the drawing-rooms of the millionaires," said Carroll, smiling; "and as far as that goes, the millionaires have them, anyhow. They are not stopped by the tariff." "Yes, they are, too, more than you think," declared the major; "and not the millionaires alone are defrauded.
But each woman defrauded or stripped of her property to starve would be a warning to all the rest: in a few years women would manage their property just as well as men. I believe they would manage it better.
To such the stepmother replied that of course the outcome of events had been a sore trial to the Squire, and all of them, but they were delighted at the happy arrangement that had been made. She glanced contentedly toward the child-bride. It was a revelation to the whole village that Marcia had grown up and was so handsome. Dismay filled the breasts of the village gossips. They had been defrauded.
This man was ingeniously defrauded of the work, which owed its conception and execution entirely to him. Perhaps on the whole he might have been congratulated, as he escaped the Bastille, to which the appropriators of his work were consigned.
'It is creditable to you, who have never been apprenticed, to express that opinion, returned Mr. Gradgrind, approvingly. 'I never apprenticed? I was apprenticed when I was seven year old. 'Oh! Indeed? said Mr. Gradgrind, rather resentfully, as having been defrauded of his good opinion. 'I was not aware of its being the custom to apprentice young persons to 'Idleness, Mr.
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