As for the Citizen, Sir, the Courtier lies with his Wife; he in revenge, cheats him of his Estate, till rich enough to marry his Daughter to a Courtier, again gives him allunless his Wife's over-gallantry breaks him; and thus the World runs round.

"Romance cheats one now and then," he remarked, and pulled himself up awkwardly, but Barbara was calm.

"I wonder whether it always cheats one!"

He cheats the rich for their money, and the poor for charity, and, if either succeed, both are pleased, and he passes for a very just and conscientious man: for as those that pay nothing ought at least to speak well of their entertainments, their testimony makes way for those who are able to pay for both.

Cheats will not always and everywhere hit on the same plan, nor will the independent testimony of false witnesses be found agreeing.

But they, at every ill success, Like creatures lost without redress, Cursed politicians, armies, fleets; While every one cried, 'Damn the cheats!' And would, though conscious of his own, In others barbarously bear none.

If agreeable people virtually live longer now, so do bores, cheats, slanderers, hypocrites, and people who eat onions and chew tobacco; and the rail enables these to pursue their victims with inevitable, fatal swiftness.

Sycophants, hustlers and cheats abound in every community; happily for the future of civilisation there is also a leaven of true nobility: "The flesh striveth against the spirit," nor does it always gain mastery.

But there is a still more remarkable instance of Signor Tamburini's tenderness to the Church, and of the manner in which he cheats his readers as to the spirit and meaning of the original, in the comment on the passage in Canto XXI.

"I think it's a game for cheats.

"A game for cheats," she repeated.

"The cheats who cheat with lifeand then make rules around their cheating and boast about the 'honor' of keeping those rules.

Oh you're very virtuousall of youin your scorn of lesser cheats.

"Why to be sure you didaccording to the rules laid down by the cheats!" Wayne came upon her upstairs a little later, sobbing.

These very feelings and convictions of the slave, (if such were possible) increase a hundred fold the guilt of the master, and call upon him in thunder, immediately to recognize him as a man and thus break the sorcery that cheats him out of his birthrightthe consciousness of his worth and destiny.

Then a-speakin' kinder cold, "Seems ter me, I'd get a new one; that excuse is gettin' old!" Pa'll look sick, just like a feller when he finds you know he cheats, But he do'n't stay home, you bet yer, when the Sewin' Circle meets.

CAMA´CHO, "richest of men," makes grand preparations for his wedding with Quite´ria, "fairest of women," but as the bridal party are on their way, Basil´ius cheats him of his bride, by pretending to kill himself.

CLA'RA, in Otway's comedy called The Cheats of Scapin, an English version of Les Fourberies de Scapin, by Molière, represents the French character called "Hyacinthe."

At enormous expense they have gathered volumes of authorities; will they readily admit them to be cheats and counterfeits?

THE CHEATS OF HOPE.

I often weep; the Mediterranean hath its sources in my eyes, for my daughter cheats at cards.

Cheats, sir!and I her father!"

The Museum of cheats.

Narrowness in their Circumstances has made many Youths, to supply themselves as Debauchees, commence Cheats and Rascals.

That thou art chosen, venerable Clause, Our King and Soveraign; Monarch o'th'Maunders, Thus we throw up our Nab-cheats, first for joy, And then our filches; last, we clap our fambles, Three subject signs, we do it without envy: