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Bruneau could neither read nor write, and perhaps it was as well for himself that his education had been thus neglected, for if he had been left to his own devices his imposture would have been very short-lived. But he contrived to attach two clever rascals to himself, who helped to prolong the fraud and to victimise the public. They were both convicts, but convicts of a high intellectual type.
I wasn't to be taken in by any of his silly occult tricks and catch-words; but it never occurred to me he was going to victimise me financially in this way. I expected attempts at a loan or an extortion; but to collar my signature to a blank cheque atrocious!" "How did he manage it?" I asked. "I haven't the faintest conception. I only know those are the words I wrote.
The best people that is to say those who did not openly laugh at it or, being scaremongers, rabidly approve it considered it a great shame and a great pity that the poor old man should thus victimise those closing years of his life which should have been spent in that honourable retirement which is the right place for fussy old people of both sexes and all walks of life.
As to getting any practice, unless his kith and kin choose to victimise themselves philanthropically according to Roger's proposal, I do not see what chance he has, where everyone knows the extent of a Carey's intellects; and what is left for the poor man to do but to study the cut of his boots?"
I sat rigidly in the chair by the crystal table, listening to every word. The woman here is the latest victim of his hypnotic suggestions, isn't she?" "Yes. One may say his LAST victim he will victimise no more." "I suppose if Aselzion told her the truth she would go at once?" "Of course! Why should she remain?
To think this tottering, old-woman-ridden Empire should dare to waste a man on such a score!" But Mr. Wells intends something more than to explain the state of mind which led a distinguished politician and moralist, a married, middle-aged man, to victimise that is the "worldly" way of looking at it a beautiful young girl who had fallen in love with his genius.
Janet Willoughby had obviously looked upon the visit with disfavour, but Claire was too level-headed to be willing to victimise herself for such a prejudice. Janet would have a fair field in Scotland. She could not hold the whole kingdom as a preserve! "You are looking charming, my dear," Mrs Fanshawe said. "I always say it is one of the tests of a lady to know how to dress for a journey.
In a turf transaction, either Spavin or Cockspur would try to get the better of his father, and, to gain a point in the odds, victimise his best friends. One day we shall hear of one or other levanting; an event at which, not being sporting men, we shall not break our hearts. See Mr. Spavin is settling his toilette previous to departure; giving a curl in the glass to his side-wisps of hair.
We claim the right to employ men without asking whether they are unionist or non-unionist." "Which means," said Ned, "the right to victimise unionists." "How is that?" asked Strong. "We know how. Do you suppose for a moment, Mr. Strong, that ideas spring up with nothing behind them?
"I think the pastoralists would agree not to victimise, as you call it," said Strong, after thinking a minute. "Who is to say? How are we to know?" answered Ned. "Supposing, Mr.
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