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"There is quality as well as quantity in scoundrelism," Dorn suggested. He was thinking without emotion of Anna. "I have decided to remain in Munich," von Stinnes spoke, "and that means that I will die here." "The day's melodrama has gone to your head," Dorn laughed. "No. There are people in Munich who know me quite well too well. And among their virtues they number a desire for my death.
Thus, by the fatality which attended me at the very time I meant to reform, I was forced into scoundrelism, and I was driven into defrauding a vast number of persons by the accident of being son-in-law to a great moralist. As Mr. Asgrave was an indolent man, who passed his mornings in speculations on virtue, I was made the active partner.
Who or what these Porras brothers were, where they came from, who were their father and mother, or what was their training, I do not know; it is enough for us to know that the result of it all had been the production of a couple of very mean scoundrels, who now found an opportunity to exercise their scoundrelism.
Gibbon, who was then a member of the House of Commons, declared that the assemblage seemed to him as if forty thousand Puritans of the days of Cromwell had started from their graves. The forty thousand Puritans were escorted by and incorporated with a still greater body of all the ruffianism and scoundrelism that a great city can contribute to any scene of popular agitation.
But this thing, this grotesque, incredible, terrible attempt to engraft treachery on one of nature’s most amazing laws this secret, cunning Teutonic reasoning, this scientific scoundrelism, this criminal enterprise based on patient, plodding and German efficiency, still bewildered the girl.
I'm going straight to the provost-marshal's to tell them what I know, and explain away this whole thing. A most extraordinary piece of scoundrelism is at the bottom of it all, but I am beginning to understand it, fully. Doctor, will you trust me? Will you let me try and be Guthrie to you to-night; and promise me to lie still here until I come back from the provost-marshal's?"
To be called Erik by his friend pleased him. He looked inquiringly at the humorous eyes of the man, and spoke: "You are cut after my pattern." The Baron nodded. "Only I have had more opportunities to exercise the pattern," he replied. "For the pattern, dear friend, is scoundrelism. And I, God bless me ..." He paused and gestured as if in a hopelessness of words.
This, then, was the secret of the unwillingness of the authorities to encourage the search for gold, and it is after all due to the fact that the search was ultimately successful beyond all precedent, that Australia has been for so many years relieved of the curse of convictism, and has ceased once and for all to be a depot for the scoundrelism of Britain "Hurrah for the bright red gold!"
But they are worse than merely licentious: they are positively villanous; pregnant with the most redemptionless /scoundrelism/, cheating, lying, thieving, and fraud; their humour debauches the whole moral system; they are like the Sardinian herb, they make you laugh, it is true, but they poison you in the act. But who comes here?" "Oh, honest Coll! Ah, Cibber, how goes it with you?"
You have outraged every sense of propriety, and every feeling of manhood that I thought you possessed. Fortunately for us all, no one is much the worse for your scoundrelism; I can call it by no other word. You have shown yourself to be, at heart, an unspeakable scoundrel, as undeserving of consideration as a coyote of the plains."
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