This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ...appalling; and the immediate course adopted in this particular case may be guessed at. "Dere is not harm in de question"--he insidiously observed, in a foreign accent, though the scoundrel could speak as good English as any blackguard in the streets--" for de lady have not say." To be sure not; nor any one for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ...appalling; and the immediate course adopted in this particular case may be guessed at. "Dere is not harm in de question"--he insidiously observed, in a foreign accent, though the scoundrel could speak as good English as any blackguard in the streets--" for de lady have not say." To be sure not; nor any one for her. For, as soon as the topic were broached, a fine display of fleecing would have commenced--in the shape of" hush-money." For some such imputed crime did a set of miscreants, in 1817, safely rob, to a good amount, a certain Lord T d, of whose ancestors' game cocks a curious story is extant, as to their being " all of one mind;" but which assurance of his feeder is further said to have miserably failed when put to the test. Other impositions, in great variety, and some extremely ingenious, with much novelty in them, occur from time to time, of which the stealing, or patronizing, a baby, by a barren wife, is by no means uncommon--without at all adverting to those cases in which children have been beguiled away for sake of the clothes, or stolen by beggars as a means of exciting charity. Sometimes (as of old), the better to impose upon the cully, a child is borrowed from some neighbouring poor woman, 154 ACCUSATORY DISPOSITION: and the mother herself hired as its wet nurse; when the putative father has to maintain the legal father and all his family, to the second and third generation of vipers; and if any of the scions thereof be thievishly inclined--as usually happens, they put up some of their acquaintance to way-lay and rob the dupe, or to enter his premises by night, for they have set him down in their minds for " a good flat." Accusation of crime of the most revolting nature was very...
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