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His own immediate people had committed no sin in the importation of the African, and the money accumulated in the traffic was not blood-money.
"Blood-money, boy," the O'Clory reminded him, "and anyway there's a touch of the evil thing about strangers' gold. Eh, but who's this?" A large motor-car had suddenly flashed by the window. With the instinct of past dangers, the little gathering of men drew close together. There was the sound of an impatient voice in the hall. The door was opened hurriedly and Crawshay stepped in.
"Oh, Sandy!" she cried, starting forward, "you druv me to it! The curse was o' your own makin' and I gev you a last chance to-night, but you throwed it from you!" "Very well, Deb," he answered, "if I've got my curse, don't think you'll not have your'n! Go down to Chester and git your blood-money, and see what'll come of it, and what'll come to you!"
Deformed by fable, the foundation of the tale is fact: the numerous descendants of the holy men still pay an annual fine, by way of blood-money to the family of the infidel chief.
What will they give thee for blood-money? 'A cheerful young demon! The Colonel bit his cigar, and turned politely to Father Victor. 'What are the letters that the fat priest is waving before the Colonel? Stand behind the stallion as though looking at my bridle! said Mahbub Ali.
There is the story of a noble lady who was murdered at Svendborg, but the murderers were men of rank, and the whole town agreed to pay blood-money, and some farms were apportioned to the murdered woman's relatives and a wooden cross set up over her grave; and it was agreed that when the wooden cross fell into decay, whoever first repaired it should possess the farm so apportioned.
"It shows a manly spirit in you," he said, "that you want to help him. But as I am determined not to accept blood-money in this case, I must treat the requests of all of you alike. I must have Grettir's life whatever it cost, directly I can get him." Then the jarl rose quickly up and refused to hear any more about atonement.
He adored his own father, and felt it was hard on a boy not to have one. "He was killed," said Kalitan, "but we had blood-money from them," he added, sternly. "What's that?" asked Ted, curiously. "Long time ago, when one man kill another, his clan must pay with a life. One must be found from his tribe to cry?
The religious gentlemen who would not take blood-money now objected that the amount proposed was altogether too small, and the President with that readiness so characteristic of him observed that he thought the prisoners must have made a mistake, and meant £40,000 apiece instead of £40,000 for the lot.
It is true, that by paid spies and informers, real criminals may not unfrequently be brought to justice; but those who have observed the working of the system must admit that the treachery which it creates the feeling of suspicion which it generates but, above all, the villanies to which it gives and has given rise, in allowing informers, by the prospect of blood-money, to give false informations, and to entrap the unwary into crimes are by no means atoned for by the occasional detection and punishment of a criminal.
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