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At secret meetings, to which trustworthy members of the various trades were invited, all sorts of material for offence was collected for the attack upon the employers, and for carrying on the newspaper agitation. It was a question of striking at the blood-suckers, and those who were loose in the saddle!
"For the want of a thousand francs sure to be repaid in four months don't throw me into the hands of the blood-suckers who get the best of our profits; do take all, monsieur! I do so little in the way of discount that I have no credit; that is what kills us little retailers." "Well, I'll cash your notes; Celestin will make out the account. Be ready at eleven, will you?
"Depend upon it, sir, it is a part of a diabolical system of buying up, which must be exposed manfully. Yes, as I was saying, what is that agricultural interest which they desire to ruin; which they declare to be so bloated; which they call 'a Vampire! they the true blood-suckers, the venomous millocrats? Fellow-creatures, Sir!
I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of the bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow, as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the blood-suckers who loll on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls. Ah, my sunburnt brothers! sons of toil and of Australia!
Do you think that it was debts I had in view when I ordered my horses to be sold, and my carriages to follow them, and kicked my Italian valet down stairs, and dismissed my mistresses, and got rid of half-a-dozen other blood-suckers? My debts had nothing to do with it.
I have counted twenty-three of these blood-suckers at one time upon a patch of my trousers eight inches square. Being now at a part of the cliffs where they receded from the sea, and where they had a last become accessible, I devoted some time to an examination of their geological character.
President, the farmers of this county ought to organize for the campaign. Cut and dry our tickets, cut and dry our plans. If we begin early and work together we can strangle the anacondy that is crushing us, and the eagle of victory will perch on our banners on the third of November, and the blood-suckers trouble us no more forever."
The idlest, the cruellest: the hereditary drones, the successful blood-suckers.
But it was not with fear; it was so that those without should not see her for she was ashamed to meet their eyes. For the first time in her life, her good-fortune appeared to her in the light of an injustice, a thing to blush for. Was she in her right place, in this soft-cushioned carriage, among these tyrants and blood-suckers?
Mine own wrongs seemed to me great, but the disasters of my country not less. I deemed that in the race of York, England would know a wiser and happier rule. What was, in this, mine error, ye partly know. A prince dissolved in luxurious vices, a nobility degraded by minions and blood-suckers, a people plundered by purveyors, and a land disturbed by brawl and riot.
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