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"Now I do not mind telling you," Pierre continued, with a mild dignity admirably assumed, "that I am Simon Grabot, and have the honour to be Mayor of Bottitort." "You!" "Yes, monsieur, I; though perhaps unworthy." I looked to see an explosion, but the Mayor was too far gone. "Why, you swindling impostor," he said, with something that was almost admiration in his tone.
Diana promised she would not behave like the cook; and two days after this conversation left the London Bridge terminus with her father and Gustave Lenoble. Mr. Sheldon troubled himself very little about this departure. "A Frenchman, a friend of her father's!" he said; "some swindling adventurer, no doubt," he thought.
It's not called swindling amongst gentlemen who know the world it's only jockeying fine sport and very honourable to help a friend at a dead lift. Any thing to help a friend out of a present pressing difficulty." "And when the present difficulty is over, do your friends never think of the future?"
The man had turned out to be a notorious swindler wanted in several cities. In New York he had been one of a gang who distributed counterfeit money, and in other states he was wanted for swindling women, two of whom he married unlawfully. The arrest had been like a shot fired at Tom by a member of his own household.
At all events, he has not got possession of the property yet, and I do not believe he ever will." It was a mournful-looking superintendent Bob made when his partners had left him alone with the officer who was acting as keeper of the property Massie had attached in pursuance of his swindling scheme. Bob had a wholesome dread of openly defying the law.
If now something was done by the militants seriously to impede the greatest of the sports, the national form of gambling, the protected form of swindling, the main interest in life of the working-class, of half the peerage, all the beerage, the chief lure of the newspapers between October and July, and the preoccupation of princes, she might awaken the male mind in a very effectual way to the need for settling the Suffrage question.
New kinds of crime, such as forgery, grand larceny, intricate swindling schemes, were doubled, while sneak thieves, drunkards, and pick-pockets decreased, and the proportion of educated criminals was greatly augmented.
A finale of reconciliation such as that of the -Bacchides-, where the swindling sons and the swindled fathers by way of a good winding up all go to carouse together in the brothel, presents a corruption of morals thoroughly worthy of Kotzebue. Roman Comedy Its Hellenism a Necessary Result of the Law Such were the foundations, and such the elements which shaped the growth, of Roman comedy.
It probably is, in an indefinite majority of instances; yet it is to me dramatically improbable that the swindling should not have accreted round some originally genuine nucleus. If we look at human imposture as a historic phenomenon, we find it always imitative. One swindler imitates a previous swindler, but the first swindler of that kind imitated some one who was honest.
"He should have kept watch on Peter and found out how the business was being run. Well, Sara, you were the level-headest of us all I'll admit that now. A nice mess it would be if you were married or engaged to Lige, and him left without a cent even if he can clear his character!" "There is a good deal of talk about Peter, and swindling, and a lawsuit," said Mrs. George Pye, quilting industriously.
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