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"Every thief among 'em 's as good as a conjurer," he declared, "and can conceal just anything up his sleeve."
The astonished traveller applies to the conjurer, who repairs to the spot, where he takes cogiaba or the intoxicating powder formerly mentioned, then standing up addresses the tree with many titles as if some great lord, then asks who it is, what he does there, why he sent for him, and what he would have him do, whether he desires to be out; whether he will accompany him, where he will be carried, and if a house is to be built and endowed for his reception?
The mighty conjurer, immediately on his arrival at the House, began to trumpet forth his powers, boasting among other things that, although his hands and feet were tied as securely as possible yet, when placed in a conjuring house, he would speedily disengage himself by the aid of two or three familiar spirits who were attendant on his call.
Thoroughly cowed and frightened that the white man had so completely read his thoughts, he turned around to his wife, and in imperative tones ordered her to quickly prepare the meat and the tea. So expeditiously was the work accomplished that it was not very long ere the conjurer and missionary were eating and drinking together.
"You should not look back upon these things with too much remorse," replied the conjurer; "forget them bear a more relenting heart; make some man happy, and marry. Have you no person at present in your eye with whom you could share your charms and your fortune?" "O, sir, you are complimentary." "Not at all, madam; speak to me candidly, as you perceive I do to you."
Now," she proceeded, "I have strong reasons for marrying Charley Mulvany; and I wish to know if I can do so without losing the property." "Make your mind easy on that point," replied the conjurer; "you swore never to put a ring on man, but you did not swear that a man would never put a ring on you.
However, they conducted Peregrine into the council chamber, where the conjurer and Hadgi were employed in ministering to those who had fainted.
With the Manner of his Reception and Behaviour there. As also the various and diverting Occurrences that happened on his Departure," was, like the former work, couched in the form of a letter to a nobleman and signed "Justicia." Both from internal evidence and from the style it can be assigned with confidence to the author of "A Spy upon the Conjurer." The story, relating how Mr.
With Mr Ross and the family the matter was well talked over, and it was determined as Mr Ross considered the conjurer who was to go through the ordeal an unmitigated fraud that he should be taught a lesson that he and his cronies would never forget. When the morning arrived the old fellows were there in good time, and the ordeal, which was to-day to be by bullet, was decided upon.
The words, or sounds, let us say, which the necromancer was uttering, only sounded but too much like "hokey-pokey kickeraboo abracadabra," and the rest of the mysterious sounds with which the conjurer at juvenile parties seeks to invest his performance with additional wonder, for the benefit of his youthful audience. Dick was in a rage. "Confound his impudence," he exclaimed; "I'll give him one."
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