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Stocks do not have the solid, honest air that Government bonds do; nothing is more finely and firmly respectable than a Government bondholder. From the blackmailer, corruptionist and defrauder of one generation to the stolid Government bondholder of the next, was not a long step, but it was a sufficient one.
Can the lives of such men be compared, seeing that the one is sad and gloomy as it is natural that a denier of his debts and a defrauder should be, a man who does not give his parents, his nurses, or his teachers the honour which is their due while the other is joyous, cheerful, on the watch for an opportunity of proving his gratitude, and gaining much pleasure from this frame of mind itself?
The baron shrugged his shoulders, but Pascal stepped bravely forward. "Then I will tell you, prince," he said, "the name that you are determined to hide from us." "Oh!" "But you must allow me to remark that the baron and myself retract the promise we made you just now." "Naturally." "Then, your defrauder is the Marquis de Valorsay!"
We replied to this Chinesing Chinee that it was all very true, but that the damage had been inconsiderable, that if the defrauder had not been in the train he could not have saved it at the risk of his life, and at the same time he could not have saved the lives of the passengers. Well, would you believe it?
He, the defrauder of my fair fame, who plundered me of the first fruits of genius by infamous falsehood, who joined in plotting my destruction by arts which the basest cowards blush at! Is he the fiend that comes to snatch me from bliss; and plunge me into pangs and horrors unutterable?
You look like him! Detcharry, do I remember Detcharry! He took from me two hundred lots of merchandise! That does not matter, here is my hand, even if you are his son!" And the old defrauder, who was the chief of a great band, without rancor, with effusion, presses Arrochkoa's two hands.
By examples: it is obvious that when evils are not removed in the external man, the lusts with their enjoyments grow and flourish. The more he steals the more a thief lusts to steal until he cannot stop; so with a defrauder, the more he defrauds; it is the same with hatred and vengeance, luxury and intemperance, whoredom and blasphemy.
They who are charged with the grievous burden of the state, must not consider the quality of the load they carry. In what manner hath this Antonio come to thy knowledge?" "I have known him as one esteemed by his fellows a man skilful in his craft, and long practised in the mystery of the Lagunes." "He is a defrauder of the revenue, thou would'st be understood to say?" "I would not.
The defrauder of large sums could, if prosecuted, use a part of that plunder, easily engage a corps of shrewd, experienced lawyers, get evidence manufactured, fight out the case on technicalities, drag it along for years, call in political and social influence, and almost invariably escape in the end.
No doubt the father was responsible for such a letter as this having been written. Doubtless he HAD told the boy all sorts of tales; perhaps he HAD declared himself to be the defrauded instead of the defrauder; he was quite capable of it. Possibly the youngster did believe he had a claim upon the wealthy relatives in that "uncivilized" country, America. The wealthy relatives!
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