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"And who is this little red-headed man?" I asked as we took our chairs. He bowed his head and mumbled a grace before replying, and I had a sense of mental conflict between us, and knew that I would have to guard against chicane, or the suave old fellow would talk me out of my suspicions. "It must have been Dago Red you saw," he began, grinning, and wagging his head.
No direct false judgment is apprehended from the tribunals of this country; but it is feared that partiality may lurk and nestle in the abuse of our forms of proceeding. It is necessary, therefore, that nothing in that proceeding should appear to mark the slightest trace, should betray the faintest odor of chicane.
Reference was made in the last chapter to the relations between the Chinese and the Japanese, and to the aggressions of the latter, increased, no doubt, by Chinese chicane and their own naval superiority and confidence.
Rumors of a wholesale indictment of the suspected officials were rife, and the city offices were in a state of siege. Tom put the paper down and smote on the desk. "Damn them!" he said; "I thought perhaps I could give them a run for their money." "You?" said Caleb, removing his glasses. "How's that?" The new recruit in the army of business chicane nodded his head.
The attempts of the Spanish party by chicane or by force to get possession of the coveted territories continued year after year, and were steadily thwarted by the watchfulness of the States under guidance of Barneveld.
A monstrous tin pan would have yielded as much assonance. Walking down towards the Vier Marchi the lad gleefully recalled the humour of a wag who, some days before, had imitated the sound of the bell with the words: "Chicane chicane! Chicane chicane!"
The sterling attitude of ex-Governor Swanson was held up as an example to the present Governor Archer. "The whole idea," observed an editorial in Truman Leslie MacDonald's Inquirer, "smacks of chicane, political subtlety, and political jugglery. Well do the citizens of Chicago and the people of Illinois know who and what particular organization would prove the true beneficiaries.
The same policy pursued in France, of fomenting civil war by subsidy, force, and chicane, during a long succession of years in order to reduce that magnificent realm under the sceptre of Philip, has been described in detail.
He had vowed war in his youth against the 'demon of chicane. He had now learned that the name of the demon was 'Legion. To cast him out, it would be necessary to cast out the demon of officialism; and we shall see what this bit of knowledge presently implied. Ibid. x. 198-99. Ibid. x. 317. Ibid. x. 270. Works, x. 282. Works, x. 296. Ibid. x. 304. Ibid. x. 292. Ibid. x. 300. Works, x. 315.
Household managers like Agathe have a plain common-sense which enables them to perceive such political chicane: the poor woman saw the truth through the lines of her son's tale; for she had read, in the exile's interests, all the pompous editorials of the constitutional journals, and watched the management of the famous subscription, which produced barely one hundred and fifty thousand francs when it ought to have yielded five or six millions.
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