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I knew the poor old man well enough; he was the last of a noble race, and I loved his child." "And did she die by ?" "Man! did I say so? Do I whisper the secrets of the Vehmgericht? I say she died that night: and he he, the heartless, the villain, the betrayer, you saw him seated in yonder curiosity-shop, by yonder guillotine, with his scoundrelly head in his lap.
I knew the poor old man well enough; he was the last of a noble race, and I loved his child." "And did she die by ?" "Man! did I say so? Do I whisper the secrets of the Vehmgericht? I say she died that night: and he he, the heartless, the villain, the betrayer, you saw him seated in yonder curiosity shop, by yonder guillotine, with his scoundrelly head in his lap.
After alluding airily to the Vehmgericht, aqua tofana, Carbonari, the Marchioness de Brinvilliers, the Darwinian theory, the principles of Malthus, and the Ratcliff Highway murders, the article concluded by admonishing the Government and advocating a closer watch over foreigners in England.
"How long have you been at the school?" "Let's see. It'll be five years at the end of the summer term." "Ah, then you wouldn't remember. I've been here a couple of terms longer than you, and the row about the League was in my first term." "What was the row?" "Oh, only some chaps formed a sort of secret society in the place. Kind of Vehmgericht, you know.
But it will not do to expect too much from any ameliorating cause or chain of causes. Race-characteristics cannot be annihilated. Man is an animal, and the Parisian turbulent. The Commune has done its worst probably, and the Internationale, which threatened at one time to loom up as a modern Vehmgericht, has subsided.
Readers of Sir Walter Scotts Anne of Geierstein will recall the Vehmgericht, that Secret Tribunal whose deeds were notorious in medieval Germany, and it chanced that the Luzensteins were in touch with this body. Its minions were called upon to wreak vengeance on the younger Palatine prince.
They were the head and front of the junto of oligarchs who formed the Vehmgericht known as the Family Compact, and for all practical purposes their judgment in matters relating to the dispensing of patronage and the disposal of Crown property was final and conclusive.
Some people ought to have mutes for servants in Vanity Fair mutes who could not write. If you are guilty, tremble. That fellow behind your chair may be a Janissary with a bow-string in his plush breeches pocket. If you are not guilty, have a care of appearances, which are as ruinous as guilt. "Was Rebecca guilty or not?" the Vehmgericht of tho servants' hall had pronounced against her.
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