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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Our city is become the haven of blackmailers and assassins, the safe vantage-ground for Sicilian stilletto bands who slay our legal officers, who buy jurors, and corrupt sworn witnesses under the hooded eyes of Justice. How much longer will this outrage be permitted?" So read a heavily typed article in the leading journal. A wave of fierce determination ran through the whole community.
This being so, there were open to him two especially favored lines: he might be a deep-sea fisherman, meaning by that a crooked card player traveling on ocean steamers; or he might be the head of a swell mob of blackmailers preying upon more or less polite society.
What the devil ever put it into my head? And there are men I know women, too scoundrelly blackguards, who'd use that information somehow; and make it pay, too. The scoundrels!" He squirmed down among the bedclothes with a sudden shiver; but the night had turned warm. "Scoundrels!" he said, with milder emphasis. "Blackmailers! Contemptible pups!"
Homer told her all about the foul conspiracy against his fortune, and how his life would be blasted by marrying into a family with three outcasts like he'd been told these was. And what was our courts coming to if their records could be stained by blackmailers.
"I was not thinking of the personal side of the affair so far as you and I are concerned, I have accepted your declaration. I claim no jurisdiction over your correspondence. I mean as regards Saton." "No! What?" she asked. "It seems to me highly possible," he declared, "that Saton was in league with these blackmailers, whoever they may have been.
The old devil left a note for us to say that he had rather be a free crossing sweeper in New York than a large mine owner under the power of a ring of blackmailers. By Gar! it was as well that he made a break for it before the note reached us! I guess he won't show his face in this valley again."
I understood better than ever Rosa's vague dislike of a life spent among the people she had known. It was nothing to me that Rebecca and her husband were potential blackmailers or that little Mr. Sachs, 'representing Babbolini's, also represented a possible life-long neighbour if we lived at Sampierdarena.
"About a gang of blackmailers," said the Jack with shrill laughter, "fellows who didn't work like common blackmailers, nor demand money. Oh, no! not naughty blackmailers! They got the fools and the vicious in their power and made them sell things for hundreds of pounds that were worth thousands. And they were such a wonderful crowd! They were such wonderfully amusing fellows.
I shall not enter into the details of the Reynolds affair. No intrigue was ever less interesting. Nor should I make even a passing allusion to it, were it not for its political ultimates. A couple of blackmailers laid a trap for the Secretary of the Treasury, and he walked into it, as the wisest of men have done before and since, when the woman has been sufficiently attractive at the right moment.
"No doubt in his way." "I think it a great mistake for any creative artist to be wonderful in someone else's way," said Miss Van Tuyn. "I only meant that his way is sometimes rather startling. And then his subjects! Drugged women! Dram drinking men! And now it seems even blackmailers." "A blackmailer might have a wonderful face." "Possibly. But it would be likely to have a disgusting expression."
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