It seemed very strange, even to him, that Lottie could coolly continue to victimize one who had just rendered them so great a service.
"From Jest to Earnest"
E. P. Roe
Much in her conduct that at first had puzzled him now grew clear in view of her purpose to victimize him, and, even as late as Christmas eve, he remembered how her use of the word "comedy" had jarred unpleasantly upon his ear.
"From Jest to Earnest"
E. P. Roe
I contribute this instance of poverty as the extremest that came to my knowledge in London; but I do not insist that it was genuine, and if any more scientific student of civilization wishes to insinuate that my tragedy was a masquerade got up by that pair to victimize the sentimental American stranger, and do him out of one of his ill-got shillings, I will not gainsay him.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells