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THE FRAUDULENT BANKER

... worse than a common pick-purse, ap Not only because his theft's greater, St But, having been taught to do what lie ought, N Because he tarns villain and traitor. He sins not from need, but out of mere greed. The crows, after garbage that lianker, And ravens ...

LITERATURE

... brutality. fill I Leonard, suspecting the affection and fidelity f bu his Wie, invites het old lover, Hnisinigh, to his- un house, picks a quarrel withIrim, and shootx him Y dead upon the sand. The deed is hushed up,' S but Christabel' detects it, 'andl vowgi ...

LITERATURE

... comfort. King Frederick the Great one day put his foot on a paper dropped bv an Ambassador who was leaving the ' Royal Cabinet, picked it up, and read it. The action is usually considered a gross aid vulgar breach of the veracities; but in point of morality ...

NEW BOOKS

... in the cart at onee, thrown in as garbage, nearly all of them naked, a few tied up in old reed baskets, and fewer-never snore than one or two-in cheap board coffins. These carts go about the streets each night, pick up these pitiable remains, some of ...