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A gang of spies and informers, in one of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays, who, after long and wearisome contrivances to discover a plot and to get the reward, just at the moment when they are expecting to see their victim swing and to pocket the blood-money, are sent away abashed and confounded by the discovery that it was a Cod's Head and not that of the Sovereign, against which he had been plotting.
Without the walls of Newgate the house of his frequentation was the 'Dog Tavern. Thither he would wander every afternoon to meet his clients and to extort blood-money.
The eagerness for blood-money tracked the clergy to their loneliest retreats, and dragged them thence before persecuting tribunals, by whose sentence they were doomed to perpetual banishment.
His help, so much bait to catch the secret? His aim blood-money blood-money?
At nights Tommy now sometimes lay among the cabbages of the school-house watching the shadow of Black Cathro on his sitting-room blind. Cathro never knew he was there. The reason Tommy lay among the cabbages was that there was a price upon his head. "But if Black Cathro wanted to get the blood-money," Corp said apologetically, "he could nab you any day. He kens you fine." Tommy smiled meaningly.
Dakota had not been to see her father since she had left him on the river trail; he had not received his blood-money would never receive it. Her father had no intention of living up to his agreement with Dakota and intended to allow him to be hanged. She thought of the signed agreement in her bodice.
A special word about PIECES IN EARLY YOUTH at the end. A majority of the sketches appear'd first in the "Democratic Review," others in the "Columbian Magazine," or the "American Review," of that period. A Dough-Face Song came out first in the "Evening Post" Blood-Money, and Wounded in the House of Friends, in the "Tribune." A Memorandum at a Venture, in same periodical, some time afterward.
At the same time I should like to say that under the peculiar circumstances of the case I should consider you altogether justified in accepting it." Ernestine drew herself up. Once more in her finely flashing eyes and resolute air the lawyer was reminded of his old friend. "I will tell you what I should call it, Mr. Cuthbert," she said, "I will tell you what I believe it is! It is blood-money."
The divine appeared in the afternoon accompanied by all the incurables of the country side: after hearing the tale of the blood-money, I determined that talismans were the best and safest of medicines in those mountains. The Shaykh at first doubted their efficacy. But when my diploma as a master Sufi was exhibited, a new light broke upon him and his attendant Widads.
If there ain't enough besides that, and I can't be earning enough to fix things for the Angel " "We are not discussing money!" burst in the Man of Affairs. "We don't want any blood-money! We have all we need without it. If you don't feel right and easy over it, don't you touch a cent of any of it."
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