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It wasn't long before he began to look down on his neighbors for being so honest that they didn't suspect other people of being dishonest, and for being so easily cheated. "Now one bad habit almost always leads to another. From cheating, Mr. Snake just naturally slipped to stealing. Yes, Sir, he became a thief. Of course that made trouble right away, but still no one suspected Mr. Snake.
But I can't see how it could be anybody else. Everything points to him. It's very plain to me." "You don't quite get me," went on Dunk, trying to get into a more comfortable position in their small hiding place. "I'll admit that we may get the thief, and I'm willing to admit, for the sake of argument, that it may be Mortimer in fact, I'm pretty sure, now, that it is he.
Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequence like a man. And so I object to paying for the support of another man's belief. I am in favor of the taxation of all church property.
Don't let the little one grow up to become a thief. She did as I bade her; but the people who hired her always found out that she was the wife of Satan Laczi, and then they would not keep her, and she would have to come back to me in the forest. And that is where I shall end my days in the forest. I am not good for anything any more; I could n't even plow a furrow any more.
His grandmother, who is a notorious thief, wanted to get it, and pawn it for drink, but Tray ran away with it and came to me about five o'clock. He gave me the brooch and asked me to take charge of it, as he expected to get money for it from Aaron Norman who wanted it." "Tray overheard my conversation with Norman," said Paul, angrily, "and knew the brooch was mine so did you, Mr. Pash."
Yes, he has a good house, but I am not so independent as if I had a room outide." "How are things going on at the store?" "About the same as usual. Why don't you come in some day?" "For two reasons; I am occupied during the day, and I don't want to go where I am considered a thief." "I wish I was getting your income. It is hard to get along on seven dollars a week."
This time I will teach you a lesson. I will sell the thief. Which of you is the guilty one?" They all shuddered at the threat, for here they had a good home, and a new one was likely to be a change for the worse. The denial was general.
"It appears you have a taste for feeling good," said the Doctor. "Now, there you puzzle me extremely; for I thought you said you were a thief; and the two are incompatible." "Is it very bad to steal?" asked Jean-Marie. "Such is the general opinion, little boy," replied the Doctor. "No; but I mean as I stole," explained the other. "For I had no choice.
Theft he could not abide, and plainly there was a thief in his house. Necessarily the thief must be one of his Negros. Sharp measures must be taken. He called his servants before him. There were three of these, besides Roxy: a man, a woman, and a boy twelve years old. They were not related. Mr. Driscoll said: "You have all been warned before. It has done no good.
Our forefathers accordingly ordained, and inscribed it among their laws, that the thief should be bound to pay twofold, but the man who takes interest fourfold, compensation; whence we may infer how much worse a citizen they deemed the usurer than the thief."
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