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Moreover, the wool buyers also benefited by the arrangement, which rendered possible a careful surveillance by the Crown and the Company of the Staple of the quality of the wool offered for sale, and a series of regulations against fraud.
If the sort of so-called representation which prevailed in the Parliamentary constituencies was, up to 1832, an absurdity and a fraud, it was not perhaps on the whole quite so absurd or altogether so fraudulent as that which set itself up for a representative system in the arrangements of the municipal corporations.
Other men were straggling up on the porch, and two of them entered. Jeff walked over to Bud, who shifted his position enough to bring him facing Jeff, whom he did not trust at all. "Mr. Lawton," Jeff began hurriedly, "I want to stop payment on a check this young feller got from me by fraud. It's for five thousand eight hundred dollars, and I notify you " "Too late, Mr. Hall.
Gloomily over a stormy and a hideous past roved the memory, stored with fraud and foul with crime, plan upon plan, schemed with ruthless wisdom, followed up by remorseless daring, and yet all now a ruin and a blank; an intellect at war with good, and the good had conquered!
Hit him again before he can get up!" cried Emma excitedly. "Be quiet, you little savage," admonished Anne. "You surely have done it this time, Hippy Wingate. Now we are in for trouble," rebuked Grace Harlowe. "Brown Eyes, this fellow is a rank fraud.
"I am no casuist," she said, "and yet it would appear to be too selfish in me, too much like to fraud, should I accept all that you offer me, such vast and personal advantage, and for which I bring you no equivalent, no dower, no estate; nothing to counterpoise the wide possessions that you will inherit; nothing that may conciliate your family, rich in material things and heaped with honors, save my poor love; and what were that?"
He could be prosecuted for conspiracy and fraud. Mr. Dodge will be suspected of murdering that man and girl. I have already heard rumors to that effect. But we must stand together. It would never do for Mr. Dodge to return home now. He must stay away from Calcutta a year, at least. Paul and I will go to Calcutta. We will let you know all that happens.
"Well, I used to occupy my leisure in constructing imaginary cases, mostly criminal, for the purpose of study and for the acquirement of experience. For instance, I would devise an ingenious fraud and would plan it in detail, taking every precaution that I could think of against failure or detection, considering, and elaborately providing for, every imaginable contingency.
I wonder how much of an arrant fraud a woman may really be to herself, even in her surest, happiest moments." "There you are again, wondering, wondering instead of accepting things and dressing for dinner. Have you seen Allan?" "Oh, yes I've been seeing him for three days through a glass, darkly." Aunt Bell flounced on into the library, trailing something perilously near a sniff.
Criminals hardened by long lives of fraud have been known to be happier after being found out simply because the strain was over. They had destroyed their moral sense. Molly's conscience was alive, though torn, bleeding, and debased. She could not be happy as they were, but yet there was the lifting of the weight as of a great mountain rolled away.
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