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Some supposed it was the work of river pirates; others a private revenge, perpetrated by some following boat's party in the darkness of night.
To desire to break His commandments is to offend Him as effectually as to break them in deed; to relish in one's mind forbidden fruits, to meditate and deliberate on evil purposes, is only a degree removed from actual commission of wrong. Evil is perpetrated in the will, either by a longing to prevaricate or by affection for that which is prohibited.
Men and women of the Girondist party came to tell her of the hideous deeds that were perpetrated there. All these horrors gradually wove themselves in the young girl's imagination around the sinister and repulsive figure of Jean Paul Marat. She knew nothing of his associates, Danton and Robespierre.
Here, too, was perpetrated the most heinous crime that can be committed against a free people the conspiring of the Trusts abetted by the railroads, to arbitrarily raise the prices of the necessaries of life meat, coal, oil, ice, gas wholly without other justification than that of greed, which, with these men, was the unconquerable, all-absorbing passion.
For all reply the natives pointed to the uncovered portions of their body, pulled back the skins which covered their arms and, pointing to the white flesh, laughed incredulously. "White men are Spaniards, and Spaniards are white men," Tom groaned, "and that we shall have to die, for the cruelty which the Spaniards have perpetrated, is clear enough.
They were larger and more uniformly successful than any that had ever been perpetrated in the States, but there was about them a subtle, dogged daring that did not belong to Yarrow's character, and shrewd people who had known them began to talk of this shadow of a woman who went about with him, a quadroon, they said, and hinted strongly that it was she who had been the vital power of the partnership, and Yarrow but the well-chosen tool.
"Then by my halidame," quoth the irate knight, "as I'm a justice o' the peace, he shall be faced with the offence. When was it perpetrated?" "At the hawking party." "What, here at Haddon?" "You don't mean the pedlar, surely?" inquired Lady Vernon. "Aye, but I do; he was murdered in the wood." "Tut," angrily exclaimed Sir George, "'tis all a tale, and I for one don't believe a word of it.
"Well, sir, if I were to tell you the history of these rascals, you would be more than amazed you would be astounded. No crime is too desperate, no knavery too hazardous, no villainy too despicable, for them to attempt, and too often successfully execute. They have perpetrated their crimes over two continents, and are known to the police the world over."
One further financial infamy the Bill perpetrated. The twenty millions sterling which were, under the Land Purchase Act of 1903, to have been a free Imperial grant to lubricate the wheels of agrarian settlement, was henceforth and by a "Home Rule Government" to be audaciously charged as a debt against Ireland.
Less than a score of years lapsed from the death of the pioneer in 1849 until over the mountains broke the warstorm in a fury that has no parallel except in wars where father has fought son, and brother fought brother; where the cause of war and the principles for which it is fought are lost in the presence of cruelties created in personal hatred and deeds of treachery perpetrated for revenge.
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