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XII. Though Zeno the Cittiæan, a stranger and an inconsiderable coiner of words, appears to have insinuated himself into the old philosophy; still, the prevalence of this opinion is due to the authority of Plato, who often makes use of this expression, "That nothing but virtue can be entitled to the name of good," agreeably to what Socrates says in Plato's Gorgias; for it is there related that when some one asked him if he did not think Archelaus the son of Perdiccas, who was then looked upon as a most fortunate person, a very happy man, "I do not know," replied he, "for I never conversed with him."
While Porthos and Mousqueton were breakfasting, with the appetites of convalescents and with that brotherly cordiality which unites men in misfortune, d'Artagnan related how Aramis, being wounded, was obliged to stop at Crevecoeur, how he had left Athos fighting at Amiens with four men who accused him of being a coiner, and how he, d'Artagnan, had been forced to run the Comtes de Wardes through the body in order to reach England.
"She went to see Lord Caranby in disguise," said the inspector, "you can see her face is made up. Does his lordship know who she is?" "Yes. And Mr. Jennings, the detective, knows also." "Perhaps you do yourself, Mr. Mallow?" Cuthbert nodded. "She is Maraquito, the " "What! the gambling-house coiner we have been looking for?" "The same. Jennings can tell you more about the matter than I can."
The dangers to which a false coiner is everywhere exposed, if he lives in the country of which he counterfeits the coin, and to which his agents or correspondents are exposed, if he lives in a foreign country, are by far too great to be incurred for the sake of a profit of six or seven per cent.
Gawtrey placed the lantern on the table and seated himself in silence. Morton, who had recovered his self-possession and formed his resolution, gazed on him for some moments, equally taciturn. At length he spoke: "Gawtrey!" "I bade you not call me by that name," said the coiner; for we need scarcely say that in his new trade he had assumed a new appellation.
If these halfpence should once gain admittance; it is agreed, that in no long space of time, what by the clandestine practices of the coiner, what by his own counterfeits, and those of others, either from abroad or at home; his limited quantity would be trebled upon us, until there would not be a grain of gold or silver visible in the nation.
I know one or two things about him. What is it they call him at the Three Pigeons? A 'smasher' that's the word-a coiner of false money. Why else should he have this metal sent him, and that great smoky chimney of his going all day?" "Why can you not leave him alone, father?" expostulated Robert. "You seem to think of nothing but his money.
"Reflect! your brother in boyhood in the dying hours of his mother, scarcely saved from the crime of a thief, flying from a friendly pursuit with a notorious reprobate; afterwards implicated in some discreditable transaction about a horse, rejecting all every hand that could save him, clinging by choice to the lowest companions and the meanest-habits, disappearing from the country, and last seen, ten years ago the beard not yet on his chin with that same reprobate of whom I have spoken, in Paris; a day or so only before his companion, a coiner a murderer fell by the hands of the police!
And the coiner crept to the door of the private stairs. He unlocked and opened it cautiously. A man sprang through the aperture: "Yield! you are my prisoner!" "Never!" cried Gawtrey, hurling back the intruder, and clapping to the door, though other and stout men were pressing against it with all their power. "Ho! ho! Who shall open the tiger's cage?"
Was he a coiner, stirring alloys over his night fires? Was he Antichrist, blaspheming the Trinity at daybreak? He was talked of by gaitered farmers at sheep-fairs, by teamsters at cross-roads, by maidens and their sweethearts on Sundays. The shepherds, it was thought, might have told more than they did. It was understood that they had caught him at his secrets times and again.
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