Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !

Updated: May 31, 2025


Just as the blackmailer and the bribe giver stand on the same evil eminence of infamy, so the man who makes an enormous fortune by corrupting Legislatures and municipalities and fleecing his stockholders and the public stands on a level with the creature who fattens on the blood money of the gambling house, the saloon and the brothel.

"And the a propos of all this?" asked Garstin "You are beginning to see the morphia maniac, the drunkard, the cocaine fiend, the prostitute, the " "Blackmailer?" "Yes, the blackmailer, if you like, in everyone you meet. You live in a sort of bad dream, Dick. You paint in a bad dream. If you go on like this you will lose all sense of the true values."

Else why should you bring these facts I do not dispute them to my notice? Supposing I refuse you remuneration?" Mills had noted the signs of agitation and anxiety. He felt that he was on safe ground. The blackmailer lives entirely on the want of courage in his victims. "You will not, I hope, refuse me remuneration," he said. "I have not threatened you yet, because I feel sure you will be wise.

"Are you the blackmailer who's been writing me those letters?" he demanded, springing into Tutt's office. "If you are, let me tell you something. You've got hold of the wrong monkey. I've been dealing with fellows of your variety ever since I got out of the seminary. I don't know the lady you pretend to represent, and I never heard of her.

She had been there, in that room, hidden watching him, doubtless, as he committed the ghastly theft. Even in the awful situation in which she found herself, what must she think of him? Criminal, blackmailer, murderess, perhaps but what could she think of him? The blood tingled through his veins and his waxen face flushed scarlet with vivid shame.

With this he dragged the blackmailer to the door and kicked him out. The part of Georges de Germany, which Dickens saw played in 1856, was Lemaitre's second great creation. Those who saw him in this part in his younger days so rave about it that even Dickens's warm eulogy seems cool in comparison.

Far from being the "constructive genius" that he is represented in every extant biographical work and note, Vanderbilt was the foremost mercantile pirate and commercial blackmailer of his day. Harsh as these terms may seem, they are more than justified by the facts.

They prosecuted the blackmailer. Yet here, too, Mills's simple reasoning held good. He could not prosecute the blackmailer, since he was not in the fortunate position of being innocent. But if you paid a blackmailer once, you were for ever in his power. Having once yielded, it was necessary to yield again. He must get some assurance that no further levy would take place.

Barnes' eyes narrowed. "Whatever they are," he said, "they meant a couple of thousand a year to Morry, and they were worth his life to somebody! How do you account for that, eh?" "You want the truth?" Wrayson asked. "Yes!" "Your brother was a blackmailer!" The breath came through Barnes' teeth with a little hiss. He realized his position almost at once. He was trapped.

For she discovered that Edward Ashburnham was paying a blackmailer of whom she had never heard something like three hundred pounds a year... It was a devil of a blow; it was like death; for she imagined that by that time she had really got to the bottom of her husband's liabilities. You see, they were pretty heavy.

Word Of The Day

ghost-tale

Others Looking