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Updated: June 15, 2025
You take the Daily Intelligencer's honest dollars without a qualm, aye, with a smirk on your imbecile face, proposing with the cool impudence of the born embezzler to return no value for them. Weener, you forget yourself.
He had lost all; could not even replace the Sunday-school fund that he had simply used, no doubt expecting to replace it with usury; but the loss and disgrace were too much for him to face, so he deserted home and friends and honor and all, and secretly ran away. The speculating gambler became a deserting embezzler.
“Then you would well devote more time to finding his scent, and less to convicting a pitiful embezzler. You know the Alopece suburb?” “Certainly.” “And the house of Phormio the fishmonger?” to which Democrates nodded. “Well, Sicinnus has been watching the quarter. A Babylonish carpet-seller has rooms opposite Phormio.
With words that were false, absolutely false, you persuaded a defenceless woman that her noble husband wearing now the martyr's crown of victory you persuaded her, I say, that this man had done the things you yourself have done in his name that he was a business failure, a trickster, and an embezzler.
Why I should take the trouble to clear myself of a senseless charge? My respect for you inclines me to the belief that you are laboring under a momentary excitement; for when you reflect that I am a prominent, not to say famous, author, you will realize how absurd it is that I should be an embezzler, and why I decline to lower myself by an explanation." Mr.
She rose as she spoke, and moved towards a side table, where two lighted candles had been placed. "My motive for talking so barefacedly about myself," he said, as they moved towards the door together, "was to let you know exactly who I am and why I am here. It was only due to you on accepting your hospitality. I might have been a criminal or an escaped embezzler.
He has, since his return to America, dispensed justice and mercy, chiefly mercy, to one embezzler, one honest fellow tempted beyond his strength, one widow, one unfortunate friend of his youth, and two orphans, and it was in no sense an extraordinary season. To return to notes of travel, our method of progression, since we deserted the high-road and the public car, has been strangely varied.
"It's an alibi for himself, an excuse for not being able to prove that I'm the man who pawned the jewelry in Baltimore! It's thinner than air!" But Greenleaf's defection was now complete. "Go on," he said to Braceway. The more he thought of the full extent to which the embezzler had gulled him for the past week, the more he raged. "Not for me! I don't want any more of the drivel!"
Righteousness will insure the divine favor; I never met him going astray who took the righteous path. And philosophers have said, 'Four orders of people are mortally afraid of four others the revenue embezzler, of the king; the thief, of the watchman; the fornicator, of the eavesdropper; and the adulteress, of the censor. But what has he to fear from the comptroller who has a fair set of account-books?
Unequivocal as the confession was, Miss Rebecca, reluctant to believe her ears, asked with characteristic bluntness: "You mean that you er misappropriated the money?" "I was an embezzler, strictly speaking." "I see." "Perhaps you wonder why I told you this," he said, bending forward. "No, we understand," said Miss Rebecca. "We understand perfectly," exclaimed Miss Carry with gentle warmth.
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