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It has been pretty well proved that the naive Bettina was an ardent and painstaking forger on a large scale. She included a series of sonnets which were written to another of Goethe's "garden of girls" before he ever met Bettina. But she appears to have vitiated her clever forgeries by a certain alloy of truth, and it may be that her Beethoven letters are, after all, fictions founded on fact.
In fact, I gave the fellows a knock or two for themselves." "You say that I am believed to be a forger?" said Chichikov, starting from his seat. "Yes," said Nozdrev. "Why have you gone and frightened everybody as you have done? Some of our folk are almost out of their minds about it, and declare you to be either a brigand in disguise or a spy.
Yet instances are rare in which the forger of even a signature does not leave some unconscious traces that will betray him to the ordinary expert, while in most instances forgery will be at once so apparent to an expert as to admit of a demonstration more trustworthy and convincing to court and jury than is the testimony of witnesses to alleged facts, who may be deceived, or even lie.
He was, I think, capable of a greater degree of depravity than any of his accomplices. Atzerott might have made a sneak thief, Booth a forger, but Harold was not far from a professional pickpocket. He was keen-eyed, insolent, idle, and, by a small experience in Houston street, would have been qualified for a first-class "knuck."
Though the success of the deception recently practised on M. Chasles by the forger of the Pascal papers has been regarded as showing how easily mathematicians may be entrapped, yet even M. Chasles would not have been deceived by bad mathematics; and Arago, a master of the science of optics, could not but have detected optical blunders which would be glaring to the average Cambridge undergraduate.
"The little window of which I spoke has given me indubitable testimony of this. There was a man I knew in the flesh, who was regarded as a monster of cruelty and selfishness. He ill-treated his wife and misused his children; his life was spent in gross debauchery, and his conduct on several occasions outstepped the sanctions of legality. He was a forger and an embezzler.
It was generally supposed at the time of his extradition that he had communicated with the Russian Embassy, with a view to giving himself up a foolish proceeding on his part, it would seem, since his whereabouts, indeed even his identity as the forger, had not been suspected.
"Surely, you do not join in the general condemnation you, his own father! Oh, it isn't true what they told me that he's a forger, who will have to answer to the law, and go to prison. It isn't true." "Dick himself is the only person who can answer your questions." "But where is he? I suppose I can write to him?" "He's in hiding," said the rector, brokenly. The words seemed to be choking him.
PITT, the younger, and FOX were both fond of port wine, and lost no opportunity of indulging in their favourite beverage. "No," said FOX, "if I must lose, I will lose in Claret!" and the rival Statesmen succumbed to intoxication. WILBERFORCE, the well-known philanthropist, was accustomed to visit the prisons. At Newgate one day he met a well-known forger, and asked him "What he was in for?"
I deceived Maurice, and let him think the check a genuine one; I made him present it and get the money, and when all went well I fancied I was safe. But my uncle discovered it secretly, said nothing, and, believing Maurice the forger, disinherited him. I never knew this till the old man died, and then it was too late. I confessed to Maurice, and he forgave me.
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