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Rashîd came back to us immediately, bringing a purple bunch, which he was going to give to me when Suleymân prevented him, exclaiming: 'Wouldst dishonour our good lord by placing in his hands the fruit of infamy, as if he were a vile accomplice of thy crime? For shame, O sinful depredator, O defrauder of the poor! Rashîd gaped at him, and then looked at me. I held out my hand for the grapes.
The rich banker Ebenstreit will leave this house, no longer his own, to enter the debtor's prison poor as a beggar nay, worse, a defrauder!" "Oh, how cruel you are!" groaned Ebenstreit. "Did you say, baroness, that this house is no longer his?" asked Splittgerber, alarmed. "No," she triumphantly cried. "It belongs to me, and all that is in it the pictures, statues, silver, diamonds, and pearls.
Thus perished, at the height of his success and of his guilt, the meanest and most worthless of the human race the mocker and robber of the poor, the persecutor and kidnapper of Paul O'Clery and his brethren, the merciless swindler and defrauder of the laborer's wages, and, finally, the hypocritical sensualist and drunkard.
"Hum!" said he, in an altered tone of voice, "that is a delicate question. My defrauder appears to be a dangerous fellow a duellist and if I disclose his knavery, he is quite capable of picking a quarrel with me not that I am afraid of him, I assure you, but my principles don't allow me to fight. When a man has an income of a million, he doesn't care to expose himself to the dangers of a duel."
Why do not the owners of pocket-handkerchiefs try to 'saturate? Why does not the cheated publican beg leave to check the gulosity of his defrauder with a repetatur haustus, and the pummelled plaintiff neutralise the malice of his adversary, by requesting to have the rest of the beating in presence of the court, if it is not that such conduct would run counter to all the conclusions of experience, and be the procreation of the mischief it affected to destroy?
This expression of Postumius being conveyed to the soldiers, excited in the camp much greater indignation. "Did the embezzler of the spoils and the defrauder threaten woe also to the soldiers?"
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