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They wanted to see and be seen there, but not to pay five francs for a seat. There must have been combination, and that among the members of the aristocracy of Naples. The Italian papers did not mention this in a tone of disgust, but rather in one of surprise that Italians should have been able to overreach a Yankee.
"'It is not to be borne indeed, said Nala; 'but how can we make head against so great a people? "'Ask of him ask of Macumazahn, the wise white man, said Maiwa, pointing at me. "'How can we overcome Wambe, Macumazahn the hunter? "'How does the jackal overreach the lion, Nala? "'By cleverness, Macumazahn. "'So shall you overcome Wambe, Nala. "At this moment an interruption occurred.
Thus his eloquence, oral or written, gave him almost boundless power over his countrymen. He possessed, also, a rare perception of human character, together with an iron memory which never lost a face, a place, or an event, once seen or known. He read the minds even the faces of men, like printed books. No man could overreach him, excepting only those to whom he gave his heart.
"Your Highness will be careful not to overreach," said Colonel Geraldine. "Geraldine," returned the Prince, "did you ever know me fail in a debt of honour? I owe you this man's death, and you shall have it." The President at last satisfied himself with one of the rapiers, and signified his readiness by a gesture that was not devoid of a rude nobility.
"But don't overreach, Dick, 'tis ever the archer's fault." The mob closed in on them, then rolled back like water from a rock, leaving some behind. Again they closed in and again rolled back. "Bring bows!" they cried, widening out. "Bring bows and shoot them down." "Ah!" gasped Dick, "that is a game two can play, now that I have arm room."
I never thought of it until I was living there face to face with the old fool I was intending to overreach. I never was SURE of it until this morning, when he actually turned out one of his lodgers that I might have the very room I required to play off our little game in comfortably. When he did that, I made up my mind to drop the whole thing, and I'm here to do it."
It was the very impudence of his courage that saved him from what they thought righteous vengeance. The Colonel came at once. The guard saluted and withdrew and the Red men seized their spoils. And, strange to say, among themselves they had not one dispute; none tried to overreach; each knew his mark and claimed his own. The whites were like men under a gallows doom.
With your leave, madam, I'll bid you good-morning. I made my bow and went out before she'd time to say any more, for she stood with the purse in her hand, looking almost foolish. I didn't mean to be disrespectful, and I spoke as polite as I could; but I can give in to no man, if he wants to make it out as I'm trying to overreach him.
Under the regime of emulation the members of a modern industrial community are rivals, each of whom will best attain his individual and immediate advantage if, through an exceptional exemption from scruple, he is able serenely to overreach and injure his fellows when the chance offers.
If the bill had passed, if the gentry and yeomanry of the kingdom had found that it was possible for them to obtain a welcome remission of taxation by imposing on a Shylock or an Overreach, by a retrospective law, a fine not heavier than his misconduct might, in a moral view, seem to have deserved, it is impossible to believe that they would not soon have recurred to so simple and agreeable a resource.
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