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"Yes, you do. None of your sham with me, I know you, Master Tom. That the way up-stairs?" "Yes," said Tom quietly; and they went on up the steps. "Just as if you wouldn't be artful enough to know all about that. Bound to say you've read it half-a-dozen times over." "I haven't looked in uncle's drawers, and if I had I shouldn't have read any of his papers." "Not you, of course.
At all events the beauty so struck me, like a landscape fresh from the hand of some great artist as it was indeed, fresh from the hand of the Great Artist that I involuntarily reined in Tom to look at it. "It's for sale, too," said I, "I wonder what such a place costs." The artful diplomate did not answer. The books and newspapers talk about women's curiosity.
Sadder and more horrible is a face like this, alive with my own crime, than the dead skull which my forefathers handed down to me!" But, without in the least heeding Donatello's remonstrances, the sculptor again applied his artful fingers to the clay, and compelled the bust to dismiss the expression that had so startled them both.
The great love and respect shown to the uncrowned king of Israel proved to the czar's officials the existence of some artful design on the part of the Jews, and convinced them especially of the disloyalty of Montefiore. The latter, they maintained, was scheming to set himself up as the Jewish czar.
As they were pretty well aware that such a circumstance could not long be concealed from us one of them came the next morning with an artful apology for their conduct.
The studied attitude and genuflection fail to hide surliness or contempt; and hostility, bitter and implacable, may reveal itself by the smoldering spark of anger in the eye, and destroy the effect of the most artful obsequiousness of manner.
Let us go to Boston, and dwell there under an assumed name. I have heard that Boston is a great city, where licentiousness and hypocrisy abound, in secret; where the artful dissimulator can cloak himself with sanctity, and violate with impunity every command of God and man. Yes, Boston is the city for us.
Why does not Maxwell present himself, and urge his infamous proposals?" "I know not, unless it be that De Guy is the more artful of the two." Let us change the scene to the next day, at the abode of Mr. Faxon. Dalhousie and his wife, by the kind attentions of their host, were restored to a comparatively healthy state.
That was all a tiny metal room, blank metal walls, silence. They were, presumably, flying between the stars at incredible speeds but there was nothing to show it. There were no screens such as the one he had seen in the ship, to show by artful scanning devices what vista of suns and darknesses lay outside.
Stimulated by the presents as well as by the artful representations of British agents the Indians had consequently become hostile. Early in 1778 there were many indications of a general disposition among the savages to make war on the United States, and the frontiers, from the Mohawk to the Ohio, were threatened with the tomahawk and the scalping-knife.
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