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This latter condition was made at the suggestion of an elderly member, who apparently believed that a man who would cheat at cards would stick at perjury. Delamere acquiesced very promptly. The taking of the oath was easy. The payment of some fifteen hundred dollars of debts was a different matter.
Titus Oates seized this opportunity of petitioning the house of lords for a reversal of the judgments given against him on his being convicted of perjury. The opinions of all the judges and counsel at the bar were heard on this subject, and a bill of reversal passed the commons; but the peers having inserted some amendments and a proviso, a conference was demanded, and violent heats ensued.
His face above his shining regimentals was grey as a slate; for he had committed perjury to save his skin, and on the face of the perjured no sun will ever shine. "Have you got it?" the doomed woman said, many hearing the words. He tried to reach, but the scaffold was too high, so he tossed up what was in his hand, and the woman caught it a little screw of tissue-paper.
Oh, father! that was a new and dreadful revelation, when, at every page, I read the excuse and justification of robbery, slander, adultery, perjury, murder, regicide.
During the voyage he was obliged to undergo severe struggles to keep the oath of secrecy imposed upon him; but perjury threatened him with the most horrible tortures, not to mention the sorceress Tabus, whom he was to meet. So Myrtilus's abode remained unknown to Hermon. Bias approved his master's intention of going into the desert.
'Ah, poor thing! replied Mrs. Sanders. Sam said nothing. He saw they were coming to the subject. 'I raly cannot contain myself, said Mrs. Cluppins, 'when I think of such perjury. I don't wish to say anything to make you uncomfortable, young man, but your master's an old brute, and I wish I had him here to tell him so. 'I wish you had, said Sam.
I should not like to make a mistake in the matter; it would be a sad affair to convict an innocent man of perjury." Again there was silence among them, as if each were weighing the case in his own mind. "For myself I feel as if the truth must be with the defendant; I am constrained to think that he is an honest man. What say you, gentlemen?" Every hand was raised in affirmation of this opinion.
As in the past they had made it necessary for him to work against them through bribery and perjury, so in ensuing struggles they might render it more and more difficult for him or his agents to suborn the men elected to office.
A solid battery of capitalist papers, legal lights, private detectives and other means particularly including the majority of the priests and clergy swamped the man and damned him and doomed him from the first word of the trial. Money flowed in floods. Perjury overran the banks of the River of Corruption. Herzog branded the man a thief and fire-eater.
But how, indeed, can they repose confidence in each other, when they know that in consequence of their connection with such systems, many of the civil duties of life cannot be performed without perjury on the one hand, or risk of life on the other, and that the whole principle of the combination is founded upon hatred, revenge, and a violation of all moral obligation?
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