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But he did not try to cheat time by fancying that he was counting a flock of sheep that crowded through a narrow gate into a field, or by saying the alphabet backwards, or by repeating all the prayers he knew, which were many, for he was a religiously inclined person, nor did he laboriously reckon how many Apostolic florins there were in seventeen hundred and sixty-three and a half Venetian ducats.
"It was because she esteems and values me, because she regards me as a brother, and I am not a vain man and could not bear those were her very words to cheat me of my affection for even an hour! It was noble, it was generous, worthy of her!
If you wanted to play this game, why couldn't you have come to me and told me so? I wouldn't have denied you but five thousand; you're not serious about that you don't mean to say that you lost five thousand pounds?" "I lost five thousand pounds, father and I must pay the money. They will call me a cheat if I do not. It must be paid on Monday Willy says so "
"The hour has come when I must speak truly. I have been deceiving you, but now I speak the truth." "Girl, do you fully comprehend what you are saying!" "I do." "Do you know your peril?" "Yes." "And you dare tell me that you are a beautiful cheat?" "I dare." "I am amazed." "You will be more amazed, you villain." "You think I am a villain?" "I know you are." "And you hate me?" "Yes, I hate you!"
And then Lucien's happiness would be over." BARON HIRSCH: "I do not believe you would ever cheat your husband." MARGOT: "You never can tell! Would Lady Katie Lambton many for money?" BARON HIRSCH: "To be perfectly honest with you, I don't think she would." MARGOT: "There you are! I know heaps of girls who wouldn't; anyhow, I never would!"
You are a rogue, and everybody has found you out to be a rogue; and the worst of rogues I find you, who scruples not to cheat his own father." Saying these words, with great vehemence he seized hold of Piedro, and in the very midst of the little fruit-market gave him a severe beating. This beating did the boy no good; it was vengeance not punishment.
The common law as interpreted by Lord Chief Justice Hale in 1676, when a certain Taylor was charged with having said that religion was a cheat and blasphemed against Christ.
She ran on thus, striving to cheat her own aching heart, while she cheered the sick man. As if activity would drive away her fear, she bustled about, put her tea to drawing by the stove, spread the little table, and pulled it close to her father, and strove, by a thousand sweet caressing ways, to entice him into an appetite.
He will then let you stand on his shoulders, so as to get out of the mound; but he means to cheat you all the same, and will catch you by the cloak to pull you back again; but you must take care to have the cloak loose on your shoulders, so that he will only get hold of that.
Mary V needed time enough to study that statement also. She mounted Tango and waited until Johnny was ready to start with his queer load. "How did you get it if I may ask?" she began then. "Did Bland Halliday happen along and have a wreck, and sell you the pieces? You want to be careful, because I know he's an awful grafter, and he'll cheat you, just as sure as you live, Skyrider."
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