With facial expression quite unministerial Hampstead's mind raced on to the question whether the story of the defalcation was also trumped up?
Thereafter, and despite good resolutions, the size of the defalcation began immediately to grow again, although Rollo, if he suffered much anxiety on that account, concealed it admirably.
I did it to get the money to cover a defalcation at the bank.
Even after the defalcation was made known there was nothing to indicate that any part of the money had been appropriated to his own use.
The names, therefore, of those who were the beneficiaries of this remarkable defalcation will, no doubt, remain a secret in the bosom of William L.
This being the case, little was to be apprehended from a defalcation of the revenue this year.
It is not altogether unsatisfactory to read of the scandalous defalcation of which he was afterwards guilty, and of the serious injury it dealt his party.
A defalcation of five cents is as bad in principle as a defalcation of a million.
But nothing yet concerning the defalcation and disappearance of Angelo Puma.
And in every one of them was an account of the defalcation and suicide of the Honorable Alonzo D.
Consider the fact that an exposure of the truth in regard to the details of a large defalcation in the city treasury would have a very unsatisfactory effect on the election about to be held.
His defalcation would be sure to come to the ears of this body and a public investigation might well follow.
This matter of Cowperwood's and Stener's defalcation he had long heard of.
The scandal of the treasury defalcation was gradually dying down; the newspapers had ceased to refer to it in any way.
When less mercury is employed than the acid can dissolve, there is formed a deuto-nitrate of mercury, which forms some corrosive sublimate with the common salt, and causes a proportional defalcation of calomel.
The bank finally paid its depositors nearly dollar for dollar and interest, notwithstanding the large defalcation by its treasurer.
That during the past sixteen years but a single instance of defalcation has occurred resulting in loss among the forty-nine national banks in the state, is pretty conclusive evidence of a diligent and careful supervision.
A change in the office of collector at one of our principal ports has brought to light a defalcation of the gravest character, the particulars of which will be laid before you in a special report from the Secretary of the Treasury.
The way in which this defalcation was so long concealed and the steps taken to indemnify the United States, as far as practicable, against loss will also be presented to you.
The morning that the defalcation came out, Matt sent and got all the other papers, which he had glanced through and talked over with his mother before his father joined them at nine o'clock.
He was so far from conceiving that his account of the defalcationin the Events could have been displeasing to them, that he bore them none of an offender's malice.
I found I couldn't embody my general knowledge ofdefalcation in the report without impertinence, and as I had to get my wisdom off my mind somehow, I put it in editorial shape.
The defalcationcame upon him like thunder out of a clear sky; he felt himself disgraced before his fellow-citizens; and he resented the deceit which Northwick had tacitly practised upon him.
Our bad teeth have given us the best dentists in the world; our habit of defalcation hasn't resulted yet in any ethical compensation.
Did you read the account of the defalcation in the Events--when it first came out?
I knew all about the defalcation from my father just after the meeting.
The defalcation had startled them, but it could not be said to have surprised any one; it was to be expected of a man in Northwick's position; it happened every day somewhere, and the day had come when it should happen there.
How low this was might be inferred from the fact that while such a defalcation as that of J.
His whole account of the defalcation had a closeness of texture which involved every significant detail, from the first chance suspicion of the defaulter's honesty, to the final opinions and conjectures of his fate.
When Maxwell came with the fact of the defalcationwhich the detectives had entrusted to him for provisional use, and asked to be assigned to the business of working it up, Kicker consented, but he consented reluctantly.
I think it could be honestly and satisfactorily proved from his history, ever since the defalcation came out, that his reason is affected.
That to a righteous man, little used to all unhallowed sources of exhilaration, this should have been a stepping-stone to a defalcation from God, was likely.
But a reverse worse than this took place;--a defalcation more injurious to the Melmotte interests generally even than that which was caused either by the prudence or by the cowardice of the City Magnates.
My wife would become more and more unhappy, and after the facts of my defalcation had been fully published, I should be still more in dread of meeting some American who would recognize me.
The paragraph said it was rumored that there was a heavy defalcation in the Forty-Ninth.
This paper says there is a rumor of a defalcation in the Forty-Ninth National Bank, and that the paying teller has disappeared.
Thus far there has never been a fraud or defalcation that was attributable to inadequate checks in the system.
I am sorry to say that I have discovered a very heavy defalcation on the part of our late manager, and the loss will be large, but that loss will fall upon us, gentlemen, not upon you.
Forgive--" "I would ignore his defalcation for your sake; but I am not a free agent in a case like this.
Pity will soften the tone of the moment; and the nobility and clergy have more interest in wearing a royal than a popular yoke; for great lords and high-priests think the rights of mankind a defalcation of-their privileges.
When he again went out, he was met by the startling rumor that a defalcation had been discovered on the part of young Sanford to a large amount.
In this way month after month passed, until the defalcation rose to over a thousand dollars.
The author therefore is not warranted from the known error in some of the entries, to make a general defalcation from the whole balance in our favor.
But I will never suffer the sacred name of economy to be bestowed upon arbitrarydefalcation of charge.
It was in his case that Jackson exercised the extraordinary power of directing the Treasurer of the United States to receipt Mr. Livingston for the sum of his defalcation thirty-four years before.
At the time this was done, Tobias Watkins was in prison in Washington for a defalcation of only a few hundreds to the Government.
This may give an unpleasant view of human nature, but it is found to be a true one, and the question which arises with men of business is, by what means may the defalcation be best guarded against.
