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It is true, that many an unfortunate fellow-citizen in Suffolk had been made to feel how close was the gripe of his hand, when he found himself in its grasp; but there is a way of practising the most ruthless extortion, that serves not only to deceive the world, but which would really seem to mislead the extortioner himself.
Now thou hearest Christ compassionately say in the text, 'Ye will not come unto Me, and thou remainest unmoved; but the time cometh when Jesus, who meekly entreats, shall sternly curse; when He who in tender patience says, 'Ye will not come unto Me, shall thunder in righteous vengeance, 'Depart from Me, ye cursed; depart unto the second death the fire prepared for the devil and his angels. In vain wilt thou plead then as thou dost now, 'Lord, I am no adulterer; I am no extortioner; I used to eat at Thy table; I was baptised in Thy name; I was a true churchman; there are many worse than I am. This will not admit thee into the Kingdom of Christ.
As Sir Giles fell from his horse, and lay stretched in perfect insensibility on the ground, a tremendous shout was raised, and Sir Jocelyn was as much applauded as if he had performed an extraordinary feat so universally was the extortioner detested.
"Drat 'em," said the stranger, as he watched a hawk-eyed extortioner in drab, for these did not condescend to hunting shirts, "drat 'em, ef I had my way I'd wring the neck of every mother's son of 'em." I turned with a start, and there was Mr. Daniel Boone. "Howdy, Davy," he said; "ye've growed some sence ye've ben with Clark."
Explain that to me, Sir Giles, I beseech you." "Readily," replied the extortioner. "But before doing so let me give you a piece of information which will surprise you, and which will show you that my tenure of this great Norfolk property is not quite so secure as you suppose it. You are aware that Sir Ferdinando Mounchensey had a younger brother, Osmond "
The eyes of the extortioner kindled, for the instant, and with evident exultation, at the first glance of the jewel but they fell in a twinkling as he assumed the cold, hard aspect of his calling, took the ring in his fingers, and holding it up to the window, pretended to examine it assuming, at the same time, an air of affected disappointment.
Let them seek their bread out of desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the stranger spoil his labor. Let no one extend mercy unto them, neither let any favor his fatherless children." Did Jehovah say this? Surely He had never heard this line this plaintive music from the Hindoo: "Sweet is the lute to those who have not heard the voices of their own children."
"Prevent this rudeness," he whispered, plucking Sir Francis's cloak. "Prevent it instantly. If her whim be thwarted, I will not answer for the consequences." "Desist, Sir Giles desist, I pray you!" cried the old usurer, in alarm. "It is my bride's wish that her attendant be not interfered with and mine too." "Well, be it as you will," replied the extortioner, testily.
I have thought again and again with terror that if I had the misfortune to fill a certain post I am thinking of in a certain country, before to-morrow I should certainly be a tyrant, an extortioner, a destroyer of the people, harmful to my king, and a professed enemy of mankind, a foe to justice and every kind of virtue.
"Drat 'em," said the stranger, as he watched a hawk-eyed extortioner in drab, for these did not condescend to hunting shirts, "drat 'em, ef I had my way I'd wring the neck of every mother's son of 'em." I turned with a start, and there was Mr. Daniel Boone. "Howdy, Davy," he said; "ye've growed some sence ye've ben with Clark."
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