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He'll be here two or three days. So Mrs. Spurlock had better stick to the bungalow." "Ah," said Spurlock; "that kind of a man." "Many kinds; a thorough outlaw. We've never caught him cheating at cards; too clever; but we know he cheats. But he's witty and amusing, and when reasonably drunk he can play the piano like a Paderewski. He's an interpretative genius, if there ever was one.
Before the base, cheating, faithless scoundrel could make one exclamation, he was plunged into the Liffey even before one mental aspiration for mercy, he was in the throes of suffocation!
"He's been trying to I don't know what. Kill me, I guess. Do you know him?" "Don't we!" they both exclaimed together. And then the one at the wheel said: "Has he g-got his g-gold machine here?" "Yes," I said, "he and another man. They're a couple of crooks, and they're cheating people out of stacks of money. How did you know him?" "Oh, he's b-been at the house.
And once a year, when I sit in my balcony in the sunshine, you must lie at my feet as becomes a shadow to do; for I must tell you I am going to marry the princess, and our wedding will take place this evening." "Now, really, this is too ridiculous," said the learned man. "I cannot, and will not, submit to such folly. It would be cheating the whole country, and the princess also.
But pretty quick he finds every one is getting his squeeze but him, so he tries to get some of it back by robbing the natives that robbed him. Then he robs the other foreigners, and it ain't long before he's cheating the people at home who sent him here. There isn't a man in this nitrate row that isn't robbing the crowd he's with, and that wouldn't change sides for money.
The late August sun shone upon the ruddy faces and broad backs of men to whom certainly it did not seem to be of great importance whether the Athanasian Creed were omitted from the devotions of Christian people or no. There was a great deal of chaffering going on; a little courting, and some cheating.
“The Furies seize them!” exclaimed Jucundus: “they deserve everything bad, always excepting my poor boy. So they are cheating the hangman by giving up their atheism, the vile reptiles, giving in to a threat. However,” he added gravely, “I wish threats would answer with Agellius; but I greatly fear that menace would only make him stubborn. That stubbornness of a Christian!
It can get along without the hoarded gold, the inherited gold, the cheating, bribing, starving gold that's the kind I mean, the kind that gets into a man's heart and veins until his fingers itch to gild everything he touches, like the rich man in the city yonder." "What rich man? I thought the I thought the city was full o' rich men."
We never, you know, take the full number of tickets, for it is impossible for the guard to count us all; and besides, there are some members who always run down the platform; and in that way we save a good deal of coin, which is spent in drinks all round. But guessing what was passing in Kate's mind Leslie said: 'It isn't cheating.
Reminiscences are continually falling from his lips, like leaves in autumn from an old forest tree; not indeed green, but rich in the colors that are of the tree, and characteristic. Thou hast known him in the extraordinary vigor and freshness of his old age; cheating time even out of turning his hair gray.
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