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Then she seized the cord and clambered up to the window. The next day the second sister had a fancy for bananas and begged so hard, that, though Maria had declared she would never do such a thing again, at last she consented, and went down the rope into the king's garden. This time she met the king, who said to her, 'Ah, here you are again, cunning one! Now you shall pay for your misdeeds.
But Destiny willed that my cunning prevail over his cunning; and I burned him to death after I vainly exhorted him to embrace the religion of al-Islam. As for me I am a dead woman; Allah supply my place to you!"
The receipt of cash in so easy a manner was so agreeable to me, that I feigned illness for some days; my pupils made an offering as usual, and were allowed to play. On the tenth day the cunning urchin who had planned the scheme came into my chamber, as customary, with an offering of faloose.
Their plans seem to be so well taken, and their cunning so great, that all our attempts have come to naught. Many of our spies have disappeared; the police cannot learn what becomes of them; they are certainly dead, but none of their bodies are ever found. It is supposed that they have been murdered, loaded with weights and sunk in the river. This man Andrews has so far escaped.
"Give me a moment to think." Brother Jacques was secretly pleased to have tamed this spirit. "To you or to no one," repeated the vicomte. "Do you believe in the holiness and sacredness of your office?" "As I believe in God," devoutly. Fervor had at once elevated Brother Jacques's priestly mind above earthly cunning. "You will hear my confession?" "Yes." The vicomte knelt.
But, if they have any tricks to play, they shall find I am as cunning as they. The landlord need not have cautioned me; I am not so easily caught. Thus fortified, I proceeded boldly; and we had not walked two hundred yards before one of them who had stepped forward, stooped and picked up a piece of paper, which he instantly began to read.
Then replied the cunning prince, "Good news, O my brothers, for I have heard this day that my godmother in SILVER LAND is well."
"And yet you feel that you can trust me?" "Yes." "Why?" "I believe that combined with shrewdness, courage and cunning you possess a sympathetic nature." "You are very complimentary." "My informant was Miss Lamb." "Miss Lamb has evidently spoken very kindly of me." "Yes, she thinks you are a fine type of honorable manhood."
She knew that he could not ascend far enough to reach Gazan, so she sat at a little distance from the tree and applied jungle opprobrium to him. Being a female, she was a past master of the art. But she did not know the malevolent cunning of Toog's little brain.
And how the foul-minded bigot, with his ill-shaven face, his greasy skin, his thick, gesticulating hands, his bellowings and threatenings, loves to reap this harvest of fear the ignorant cunning of the nursery girl has sown for him!
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