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But it appears, by subsequent proceedings, that they wished to fasten upon him the charge of embezzlement, the responsibility of the sufferings of the colony, and to mulct him in fines. He was arrested, and confined on the pinnace. Mr. Ratcliffe was made President. On the 11th of September Mr. Wingfield was brought before the Council sitting as a court, and heard the charges against him.
You ought to hear my wife go on about it." "But you have an easy time: you didn't mind Brown's embezzlement," said Harry. "What a stroke of luck for you! You can buy back your wife's ten shares at a low figure, and have a good conscience the rest of your life." "By Jove, Harry! you have given me an idea.
Let me confess the temporary embezzlement. Life at my college is more or less cloistered. In return for a modest payment, most of us masters are lodged in the building; and we take our meals at the principal's table.
It did not matter that he charged George W. Stener with embezzlement at the same time. Cowperwood was the scapegoat they were after. The contrasting pictures presented by Cowperwood and Stener at this time are well worth a moment's consideration. Stener's face was grayish-white, his lips blue.
The Equatorial bubble was most unfortunate, and that unfortunate young man, who has absconded after a long course of embezzlement, has carried off much valuable property. I was laying the case before Miss Ponsonby, and showing her what amount had been fortunately secured.
"What is the difference between that and getting possession of a bank and robbing it?" she asked, hot with indignation. "Oh, one is an operation, and the other is embezzlement." "It is a shame. How can people permit it? Suppose, Mrs. Fletcher, a wrecker should steal your money that way?" "I was thinking of that."
But let us look at Pillars of Society. Here we have to be placed in possession of a whole antecedent drama: the intrigue of Karsten Bernick with Dina Dorf's mother, the threatened scandal, Johan Tönnesen's vicarious acceptance of Bernick's responsibility, the subsidiary scandal of Lona Hessel's outburst on learning of Bernick's engagement to her half-sister, the report of an embezzlement committed by Johan before his departure for America.
There are some, I suspect, who fall into vice from being so satisfied with themselves that they scorn to think it possible they should ever do wrong. He went on taking and taking until at last he was obliged to confess to himself that there was no possibility of making restoration before the time when his borrowing must be embezzlement.
Charles T. Yerkes, one of his partners in politics and street railway enterprises, had been less fortunate, for he had served seven months for assisting in the embezzlement of Philadelphia funds in 1873.
"What have you got to do with him? You have no case against him, and you cannot spare the time to do it simply out of kindness to me." "It's not kindness, it's business, my friend," he replied. "You may not believe it, but I have a warrant for your man's arrest." "On what charge?" "On a charge of being concerned in a big embezzlement in Cochin China," he answered.
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