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Updated: May 7, 2025
"What does it mean?" the officer asked, in some surprise. "It means that this Maurokordatos is a dangerous swindler and adventurer, whom we have just taken into custody." "He is not a prince?" "No; a circus rider." An hour later, the officer received a letter from the charming Countess, in which she humbly begged for pardon.
"The blaggard bailiff and swindler turned swadler, hopin' to get a fatter cut from the Bible blades, oh!" "Have you your bades about you? if you have, I'll throuble you to give us a touch of your Padareen Partha. Orange Bob at his Padareen Partha! ha, ha, ha." "You know much about Protestantism. Blow me, but it's a sin to see such a knavish scoundrel professing it."
When I recovered I found that my foe, whose sick-chamber was crowded with friends and comforters, had taken advantage of my illness to ruin my reputation. He, the swindler, accused me of his own crime: the equivocal character of my uncle confirmed the charge. Him, his own high-born pupil was enabled to unmask, and his disgrace was visited on me.
"You can't put me in prison for an agreement," replied I. "No; but I can prosecute you for a swindler." "No, you confounded old rascal, you cannot; try, and do your worst," cried I, enraged at the word swindler. "Vell, Mr Newland, if you have not de ten tousand a year, you have de house and de monish; you vill not cheat a poor man like me." "I have sold my house."
Well, he comes up to the edge of the glen, and he looks into it and round it, and up and down at the tower, and he wanders about the heaps of fallen masonry that there is there, and finally he puts thumbs in his armhole and went slowly back to his trap. 'But you'll be coming back, my old swindler! says I to myself. 'You'll be back again I doubt not at all! And back he did come that very night.
Ferriday, once her accomplice in the noble business of getting Dyckman to back her, was revealed now as a cheap swindler trying to keep Mrs. Dyckman in trade at her husband's expense. "I'm through with the pictures, I tell you!" she stormed. "I'm sick of the cheap notoriety. I'm tired of being public property. I can't go out on the street without being pointed at. It's disgusting.
The whole thing was a fraud, and the swindler only avoided arrest by leaving the country. Probably the goods were stored somewhere or perhaps seized by some creditor. But I really can't say definitely without looking the matter up. There are some books and prints now left in the house out of the wreck. We shall probably put them in a sale, only they have been overlooked.
You swell and strut on her pickings. You're a cock forced from the smoke of the dunghill! You shame your mother, damned adventurer! You train your boy for a swindler after your own pattern; you twirl him in your curst harlequinade to a damnation as sure as your own. The day you crossed my threshold the devils danced on their flooring. I've never seen the sun shine fair on me after it.
He was also made the victim of a conscienceless swindler who fleeced him of many thousand dollars, and, to crown all, his old and indefatigable enemy, F.O.J. Smith, administered a cowardly thrust in the back when his weakening powers prevented him from defending himself with his oldtime vigor.
The task to be performed was neither easy nor pleasant. It was necessary that the orator should accuse the gentleman opposite to him, a man with whom he himself had been very intimate, of iniquity so gross and so mean, that nothing worse can be conceived. "You are a swindler, a cheat, a rascal of the very deepest dye; a rogue so mean that it is revolting to be in the same room with you!"
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