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And, if we threw enough money around, we could be the rottenest man and woman on the face of the globe, we could be murderers and thieves, even, and they'd all be falling over each other to wait on us!" "Well, let's murder and thieve, then!" said Susan blithely. "I may not do that " "You mayn't? Oh, Bill, don't commit yourself! You may want to, later." "I may not do that," repeated Mr.
Coldevin had undoubtedly spoken intentionally. He had even addressed his remarks very plainly. Irgens bit his moustache occasionally. But now Norem woke up. He understood that something was happening before his dull eyes, and he began to mix in, to declaim about business morals. It was the rottenest morality on earth, usury a morality for Jews! Was it right to demand usurious interest?
"And the only reason I'll be easy with you, Jimmie Carlisle, is because you are Maggie's father though you're the rottenest thing as a father God ever let breathe!" Old Jimmie shrank slightly before Larry's glower, and his little eyes gleamed with the fear of a rat that is cornered. But he said nothing. Larry turned his back upon the two men. "We're through with this bunch, Maggie.
"It was all fenced around with match-boarding." "Do you mean that you have been allowed on board the Scorpion?" Granet nodded. "I had the rottenest luck," he declared. "I took Miss Conyers and her friend down to see her brother, Commander Conyers. We were invited to lunch on board. At the last moment we were turned off.
The worst sort of persons are made comfortable: whilst the hard-working, self-supporting man, who disdains to throw himself upon charity, is compelled to pay rates for the maintenance of the idle. Charity stretches forth its hand to the rottenest parts of society; it rarely seeks out, or helps, the struggling and the honest.
The man's eyes burned livid, like coals. It was a strange and rather sickening thing, Alan Massey thought, to hear him talk like this after having lived the rottenest kind of a life, sunk in slime for years. "The money is nothing to me," he flung back. "Not now. I thought it was worth considerable when I drove that devilish bargain with you to keep it.
All the corporation, all the merchants, all the tradesmen, all the clergy and priests, whether of the church of England or of the numberless sects of dissenters, all these, and all whom they could array under their banners, were volunteers to uphold the most corrupt and profligate system of election that ever disgraced the rottenest of rotten boroughs.
This has been one of the rottenest States in the Union for a good many years, and no wonder such men as Tom think they can about do as they please; but a good many are getting pretty damned tired of it, and there's a sort of reform mutter going on here and there that will gather and swell if skilfully manipulated.
If he presume to differ from these views, they put him into a moral pillory, and pelt him with their dirtiest stones and their rottenest eggs." "Then the maxim should be reversed, and party is rather the madness of the few for the gain of the many? "Of the two, that is the more correct definition." "Let me keep my senses and decline to be one of the few."
I doubt whether they would understand one if they tried, I doubt whether all could read one in the literal sense of the word. We have had we have still the most expensive and rottenest system of primary education in the world, the worst that squabbling sectarians can devise.
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