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How could he be fit for anything, when he so constantly allowed himself to be befooled? There was not one word of truth in the whole story. His simple confidence was held in her grasp, like a child in the talons of an eagle; but this did not last much longer. Fortunately, she was without calculation or perseverance.
He had been befooled once too often to listen to the many explanations of those around him. But the conductor now appeared, having found out all there was to tell about the man, and feeling annoyed at his mistake, now demanded of the countryman either his ticket or his fare, and threatened to put him off the train at the next station if he did not produce either the one or the other.
I kept her in her place, no more, who, if she could have had her will, would have ousted me from mine, perhaps by death, for the wives of wizards learn their arts. She has left you because the Prince, my brother, whom she has befooled with her tricks and beauty, as she has befooled others, or tried to" and she glanced at me "is a bigger man than you are.
Milles tonnerres! let nobody in future dare to say in my presence that my dear uncle is not the finest cavalier on the continent! I should have been inconsolable if I had not made your acquaintance. Capital! I was looking for a dead uncle, and I have found a living one. C'est bien charmant! The Goddess of Fortune is not a woman for nothing. I protest that she has quite befooled me!"
It would take time and trouble, but it was essential. I must run her to ground if possible, fix her once more, or I should never again dare to look my employers in the face. I was ashamed to confess to Falfani that I had been outwitted and befooled. I would send him no more telegrams until I had something more satisfactory to say.
In his way he loved her madly as he had loved her before, and as he would have loved any woman who embodied triumph and beauty; and burning with desire for both, and with jealous rage of all, he swore he would not be outdone, befooled, cast aside, and trampled on.
Sure you are not befooled and led away by his deceiving words to believe such madness as he speaks? Andrew started at her touch, like a man waking from a dream. He then looked seriously at her, and said, 'Madam, I cannot say yet how much I believe of yon good man's doctrine; but I will not rest till I know more of it.
That doubtless was the spot, and there, after the offering of sacrifices, Trophonios obligingly showed himself, and explained who he was and what were his powers. Since that time his oracle was much consulted, and happily an account of how he, or his priests, befooled visitors to the cave has been given us by Pausanius from his personal experience.
We saw the accident from the other side of the Roseg glacier." "Yes. Stampa pointed you out to me. I could not believe my eyes. I watched you till the thought came that Stampa had befooled me. Then he pushed me off the rock where we were standing. I broke my leg in the fall; but he held me there on the rope and taunted me. Great God! how I suffered!"
After giving his apprentice a last look full of many meanings, Cornelius double-locked the door, took away the key and descended the staircase, leaving the young nobleman as much befooled as a bell-founder when on opening his mould he finds nothing.
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