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As, however, the cardinal's extravagance had left him with little means of supplying her necessities, Madame La Mothe conceived the idea of swindling Boehmer out of his necklace, and of making de Rohan an accomplice in the fraud. The one thing which in the transaction is difficult to determine is whether the cardinal was her willing and conscious assistant, or her dupe.
At first he did remind them they had told him to do so but then Jeppe received a hint that his youngest apprentice must stop his attempts at swindling. Pelle could not understand it, but he conceived an increasing dislike of these people, who could resort to such a shameless trick in order to save a penny piece, which they would never have missed.
Crimp, the pawn-broker, and by seeing him, with a look of wrath and horror, hurry round his counter and out through the door, upon the sidewalk, where he stood for a moment straining his eyes down the street, as if in search of the kind-hearted youth, who had by this time disappeared up one of the cross streets. "The villain," he exclaimed; "the swindling scoundrel!
'I have always expected that he and I would be brought together again in the course of business, said Slyme, taking a fresh handful of nuts from his pocket; 'but I thought he would be wanted for some swindling job; it never entered my head that I should hold a warrant for the apprehension of his murderer. 'HIS murderer! cried Mr Chuzzlewit, looking from one to another.
"And who is that with you?" He gets answers from the anvil chorus. "That's the swindler!" they shouts. "That's Prentice Owens! He's the one that took our money, and the boy is one of the gang! Nab 'em, Mr. Officer, please nab 'em!" "G'wan, you're a lot of flossy kikes!" I throws back at 'em. "Torchy," says Mr. Ellins, "have you been up to any swindling game?" "Honest, I ain't, Mr. Ellins," says I.
And yet we need only imagine for a moment what will really inevitably come to pass, that is, the Christian social standard replacing the heathen social standard and established with the same power and universality, and the majority of men as much ashamed of taking any part in violence or in profiting by it, as they are to-day of thieving, swindling, begging, and cowardice; and at once we see the whole of this complex, and seemingly powerful organization of society falls into ruins of itself without a struggle.
Hazeldean were invariably partners, and no two people could play worse; while Captain Barnabas, who had played at Graham's with honour and profit, necessarily became partner to Parson Dale, who himself played a good steady parsonic game. So that, in strict truth, it was hardly fair play; it was almost swindling, the combination of these two great dons against that innocent married couple! Mr.
West was frowning, but he smiled with some cynicism over her last remarks. "Besides," she continued, "I couldn't help admiring him. He has a regular genius for swindling that man. You'll agree with me there?" A sudden heavy roll of the vessel pitched her forward before he could reply.
"Yes in prison, I tell you; charged with swindling and theft ever since he set foot in Liverpool. There, if that's not reason enough for turning them up, I give you up. You can tell mother so, and say I'm down at the club, and she'd better leave supper up for me; do you hear?" Jemima did not hear. She sat rocking herself in her chair, and sobbing as if her heart would break.
At every station that day, pay had been taken for service unperformed, and it was more than once demanded twice over. We trusted the repeated assurance of the postmaster at Næs, that our tickets had been forwarded at once, and paid him accordingly. But at the first station next morning we found that he had not done so; and this interlinked chain of swindling lasted the whole day.
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