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"Here," cried Keast, as he entered, closing the door behind him, "where's the Governor? Here, Magnus, I've been looking for you. The crowd has gone wild out there. You've got to talk 'em down. Come out there and give those blacklegs the lie. They are saying you are hiding." But before Magnus could reply, Garnett turned to Keast. "Well, that's what we want him to do, and he won't do it."
What an extraordinary little piece of conceit the daughter was, with her Gallicised graces and daring affectations, not fit for well-bred English girls to associate with! What strange people were those they assembled round about them! Sir Francis Clavering was a gambler, living notoriously in the society of blacklegs and profligates.
Strikes may be declared acts of treason, Trade Union officials arrested and tried by courts martial, and soldiers used as blacklegs and no knowledge whatever of these happenings, not even of the existence of strikes or trade disputes, may reach the general public at all if the authorities so determine...."
It was a cry of complete reaction; the room reeled about her and she would have fallen headlong had not Westcott clasped the slender form closely in his arms. An instant he stood there gazing down into her face. Then he turned toward Brennan. "Leave us alone, Dan," he said simply. "Get that gang of blacklegs out of here." The marshal's lips smiled.
I had known Graeme's crime and Gourlay's self-murder; but the crime was a trick among blacklegs, and the suicide was the madness of a gambler, who had risked his money and was ruined at the moment he wanted to ruin another.
But there's such swells in this and such a foxey bunch of blacklegs, that I'm as nervous as a rookie cop on his first arrest. Don't hold a grudge against me." Shirley lit a cigarette and resumed his good nature: "Go on, Captain. I'm so stale with dolce far niente, after the Black Pearl affair last month, that I act like an amateur myself. Make it short, though, for I'm going to the opera."
Both Harrison and Culvera had already condemned him to death. He turned quietly to the insurgent leader. "How about it, general? Do I get a pass to Kingdom Come because I stood by a half-grown kid when two blacklegs were robbing him?" "You shot Mendoza, eh?" demanded Pasquale, his heavy brows knit in a frown. "No; I helped the boy escape who did."
His choice of a profession was absurd, dictated merely by social opinion; he should have been working hard in a commercial office, or at some open-air pursuit. Naturally he turned again to the thought of gambling, this time the great legalised game of hazard, wherein he was as little likely to prosper as among the blacklegs of Brussels.
But she is as wildly delighted with dancing as any miss fresh from school." "And why not? It is little pleasure that comes into her life. An orphan barely twenty-two with the entire responsibility of her uncle's ranch upon her shoulders. Living in a very hornet's nest of blacklegs and and " "Gamblers," put in the man, quietly. "Yes," Aunt Margaret went on defiantly, "gamblers.
Almost alone among the civilized nations of the world, the United States pursues critics of the dominant political theory with mediaeval ferocity, condemning them to interminable periods in prison, proceeding against them by clamour and perjury, treating them worse than common blacklegs, and at times conniving at their actual murder by the police. And so, above all, in religion.
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