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Stand forward, fair Mistress Aveline Calveley, and substantiate what I have just declared." Thus adjured, the maiden approached within a few paces of the Prince, and having made a lowly salutation, said, "All that your Highness has advanced concerning me is correct." "Enough, fair mistress," rejoined Charles. "How say you, Sirs," he continued, in a stern tone, to the two extortioners.
You should have seen the artless admiration with which those estimable portly deputies, torpid with good living, listened to that ascetic, that man of another epoch, as if some Saint-Jérôme had come forth from the depths of his thebaid to overwhelm with his burning eloquence, in the Senate of the Empire of the East, the unblushing profligacy of prevaricators and extortioners.
Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Yet such were some of you: but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.
Or should the State have its hierarchy, its privileges, its ministry, so that it may carry on a trade in mining, canals, or railways, may speculate on the Stock Exchange, grant leases for ninety-nine years, and leave the building of streets, bridges, dams, water-ways, excavations, sluices, etc., to a legion of contractors, speculators, usurers, destroyers of morality, and extortioners, who live upon the public wealth by the exploitation of workmen and wage-earners, and upon the folly of the State?
The conduct of the ushers, who were either tyrannical extortioners, or partakers in our crimes the constant loss of our clothes by the dishonesty or carelessness of the servants the purloining our silver spoons, sheets, and towels, when we went away, upon the plea of "custom" the charges in the account for windows which I had never broken, and books which I had never received the shameful difference between the annual cost promised by the master, and the sum actually charged, ought to have opened the eyes of my father.
Happily for our days, good and even pious pawnbrokers may be found, who are honourable exceptions to Mr. Bunyan's sweeping rule; nor do our women in any respect appear to be greater extortioners than our men.
Also children and fools are of the same temper with hypocrites, as to this: they also love, without ground, as the Pharisee, to flatter themselves in their own eyes; "But not he that commendeth himself is approved." "God, I thank thee, I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican," &c.
"So, my angel, I am leaving your foggy island, my cramped London lodgings, and extortionate London tradesmen, on whom I have squandered so much of my fortune that they ought to forgive me for leaving a margin of debt, which I hope to pay the extortioners hereafter for the honour of my name. I doubt if I shall ever revisit England.
"It's easy work for us, Nep; we hunt in couples: you the men, and I the maids ha, ha!" "Tush, Aunt Bridget! that speech is not quite gallant, I fear." And the worshipful extortioners giggled jovially.
Extortioners were suppressed, industries fostered, and peace maintained. In the religious controversies which followed the preaching of Luther, the eastern provinces of the hollow land almost exclusively espoused the new religion, while the western provinces clung as tenaciously to the old.
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