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A better view showed that it was the old story, thief catch thief, for there in the middle of the ford was a fox with something in his jaws he was returning from our barnyard with another hen. The crows, though shameless robbers themselves, are ever first to cry 'Stop thief, and yet more than ready to take 'hush-money' in the form of a share in the plunder. And this was their game now.
This is called the extortion of hush-money, the most cowardly and infamous of crimes, which the law, unfortunately, can rarely overtake and punish. "Extortion of hush-money," said an old prefect of police, "is a trade which supports at least a thousand scamps in Paris alone. Sometimes we know the black-mailer and his victim, and yet we can do nothing.
Panyóki showed no signs of taking part in the auction. She evidently knew nothing of the existence of the treasure; Prepelicza had not told her the secret, and had thus proved himself a clever man, for if he had told her too, his part in the play was over. Whereas now, when the two brothers had the caldron in their possession, they would be obliged to pay him hush-money to hold his tongue.
This man has several counterparts, whose acts are no secrets to the public ear, and who turn their office into a mart of intrigue, and have enriched themselves upon the bounty of espionage and hush-money, and now assert the dignity of their purse. It may be asked, why are these men kept in office? or have these offices become so disgraced that honest men will not deign to accept them?
For her sake, I won't urge you to break her heart at once by disinheriting her son, now and here, too openly. You can make what arrangements you like with these blood-sucking Warings. You can do as you will in providing them with hush-money. Let them take their black-mail! You've handed them over half the sum you got for Dowlands already, I suppose.
Paul's "holy kiss" a little too literally; and the saintly pastor with a skeleton in his closet, are all alike fish in the tribute net of this insatiable toiler of the turbid sea of scandal. No uninitiated person can form an idea of the large number of such cases that are yearly silenced by the payment of hush-money in this city.
The old lady, who had fallen from her high estate where Iza had lifted her, and was ordered out of the capital for extorting hush-money upon her daughter's stock of love-letters, the old lady became a queen a queen of the disreputable classes.
Yes, hush-money, I repeat, the price of my silence regarding your intrigue with my wife my wife who calls herself " "We will introduce no woman's name into this conversation, if you please," Iglesias interrupted sternly. The limit of things pardonable had been passed. His face was white and keen as a sword.
A better view showed that it was the old story, thief catch thief, for there in the middle of the ford was a fox with something in his jaws he was returning from our barnyard with another hen. The crows, though shameless robbers themselves, are ever first to cry 'Stop thief, and yet more than ready to take 'hush-money' in the form of a share in the plunder. And this was their game now.
He had thought of many possibilities, of the impostor's flight, of lavish offers of hush-money, of passionate appeals for mercy, of scornful and indignant denial. But in all his imaginings he had never imagined this. Ever since he had sent his own letter, he had been doubtful of its wisdom, and yet he had not been able to think of any other course that he would have preferred.
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