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He had, by reaching far out of the window, been able to grasp an old-fashioned lightning rod with which the ancient wooden mansion was provided, and by which he proposed to descend to the ground. Under the swindler's weight, the beating of this swaying rod against the side of the house was the sound Nick had heard.
Let the end come as it may, here I am ready to profit by it: here I am, facing both ways, with perfect ease and security a moral agriculturist, with his eye on two crops at once, and his swindler's sickle ready for any emergency. For the next week to come, the newspaper will be more interesting to me than ever. I wonder which side I shall eventually belong to?
He was a vagabond and a cheat; he had lived a mean, shuffling, degraded life, but he was human; and she had found her way to the lost sympathies in him which not even the self-profanation of a swindler's existence could wholly destroy. "Damn the breakfast!" he said, when the servant came in for her orders. "Go to the inn directly, and say I want a carriage and pair at the door in an hour's time."
The swindler says he has the money and would lend it; but, as the borrower is his brother, he cannot charge interest. So he proposes that he should hand the dupe the money, and the latter should lend it to the swindler's brother, exacting a heavy pre-payment of interest which, it is pointed out, they may equally enjoy in dissipation.
My readers shall have a better recipe than this swindler's work hard, think hard, be honest, and spend little this will "make common gold," and this is all the secret Rothschild ever had. A number of these recipes are barefaced quackeries; such as cures for consumption, cancer, rheumatism, and sundry other diseases; to make whiskers and mustaches grow ah, boys, you can't hurry up those things.
Then his sinewy hand closed on the collar of the swindler's coat. The train was slowing up just then, and a brake-man threw open the door of the coach with the announcement: "Jayville!" "I'm going to introduce you to the town," grinned the farmer. "Bolt, you varmint!" He ran the fellow down the car, the other passengers arising from their seats in excitement.
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