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Smith was serene and happy, for he had been bribing the engineer. But another party won the prize! Smith said: "Here, that won't do! He guessed two miles wider of the mark than I did." The purser said, "Mr. Smith, you missed it further than any man on board. We traveled two hundred and eight miles yesterday."
Possessed of this sum, he won over the sturdy Spartan by the gift of five talents, and to Adimantus the Corinthian, the most obstinate in retreat, he privately sent three . The remainder he kept for his own uses; distinguished from his compeers in this that he obtained a much larger share of the gift than they; that they were bribed to be brave, and that he was rewarded for bribing them.
If no traveller is at hand, the "Line" is "called up" and asked if any one is going in the desired direction from elsewhere; if so, the "duplicate" is repeated "down the line," but if not, a traveller is created in the person of a black boy by means of a bribing stick of tobacco. No extra charge, of course. Nothing IS an extra in the Territory.
His daughter, it seems, over-heard the villain bribing the ruffian to commit this foul and terrible act, and she flew to the mine directly. She dispatched some miners to seize that hellish villain, and she went down the mine to save her father." "Ah!" said Walter, trembling all over. "She has never been seen since." The Colonel's head sank for a moment on his breast.
The bribing the ringers to muffle the bells is a highly characteristic trait. Of a third letter I will print only a part, because the remainder concerns the unfortunate affair which compelled the writer finally to leave England the result, as is well known, of a trial for libel in which Landor was cast in heavy damages which were far beyond his diminished means to pay.
Phoebe Dale had not received a letter for some days; that roused her suspicion and stung her jealousy; she came up to London by fast train, and down to Gravesend directly. She had a thick veil that concealed her features; and with a little inquiring and bribing, she soon found out that Mr. Falcon was there with a showy dogcart.
With this preliminary sketch, we can now proceed to a consideration of how Astor profited from the banking system. We see that constantly the bold spirits of the trading class, with a part of the money made or plundered in some direction or other, were bribing representative bodies to give them exceptional rights and privileges which, in turn, were made the fertile basis for further spoliation.
He "treated" the voters to drink or food in a very modern fashion, though with a more than modern profusion; and he went to the extreme of bribing them if treating did not suffice. Against these practices Coriolanus haughtily protests, in Shakespeare's play.
But the bribing of Congress in 1864, and the thefts in the construction of the railroad, were only parts of the gigantic frauds brought out frauds which a people who believed themselves under a democracy had to bear and put up with, or else be silenced by force.
The rich peasants, for example, have gained their fortune and influence by demoralising and exploiting their weaker brethren, by committing all manner of illegalities, and by bribing the local authorities. Once this view is adopted, it follows logically that the Communal institutions, in so far as they form a barrier to the activity of such persons, ought to be carefully preserved.
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