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For the first time since the scene in the breakfast-room at Medford she was aware of a certain calmness that had come to her. Perhaps she had at last begun to feel the good effects of the trial by fire which she had voluntarily undergone to know a certain happiness that now there was no longer any deceit in her heart. This she had uprooted and driven out by force of her own will. It was gone.
Two girls of noble family had been educated in a convent, where, to safeguard them from the seductions and vanities of the life for which they were destined, the nuns had persuaded them that the world is full of deceit, and that if, when people praise us, we could conceal ourselves and listen to what they say when we have disappeared, we should hear very chastening things.
And yet Marion cannot be convinced that her girls are capable of deceit. Poor child, poor child, it is fortunate for her that there is someone at hand to come to her rescue at such a crisis," and Mrs. Stone reached the bottom of the stairs just as the evil-intentioned ghost slipped into the housekeeper's pantry.
She no longer cared to be beguiled by long walks in the shrubbery, to hear nothing but praises of "my brother," and the oft-told tale of his love for her. Association with refined, honorable, high-minded people was doing its work with her; anything approaching deceit, falsehood or meanness revolted her. Those were not the best possible dispositions in which Allan could find her.
"Mother did not wish to come with me," replied the daughter, trying to avoid the necessity of direct deceit. "She will probably leave the house pretty soon." The fellow was plainly embarrassed, despite the protecting gloom which concealed his features. Jennie knew him to be one of her most ardent admirers, though she had never liked him.
He had loved her, he did love her, and the only reason she was, as he supposed, ignorant of the humiliating story of his past, was because he had put it resolutely out of his mind; and it hurt his pride too much to go over the detail of the deceit and treachery from which he had suffered, even in his own thoughts. Elsie's absence was prolonged to a fortnight, and when she returned, Mrs.
Whenever it is said that a certain thing is essential to liability, but that it is conclusively presumed from something else, there is always ground for suspicion that the essential clement is to be found in that something else, and not in what is said to be presumed from it. With regard to the intent necessary to deceit, we need not stop with the single instance which has been given.
Her prayer for him, the sympathy she said she felt, the maidenly sensibility which had charmed him in her all, all had been lies, deceit, sham, in order to attain an object. And that old man and the brothers to serve whom she had dared to approach him they all knew the cruel game she was playing with him and his heart's love.
Mixed Constitution of the Church of Christ benevolent Spirit of the primitive Believers at Jerusalem Anxiety of Ananias and Sapphira to appear as zealous and liberal as others Ananias repairs to the Apostles to deposit the price of his Possessions is detected in Deception and dies similar Deceit and Death of Sapphira Nature and Progress of Apostasy peculiar Guilt of Sapphira Agency of Satan distinctly marked diabolical influence ascertained consolatory Sentiments suggested to Christians.
Under these stifled conditions she is no longer normal; she becomes weak, pliable she no longer reasons; she craves excitement, deceit, misadventure, confession quarrels jealousy love stringing their nerves to a tension and breeding a certain melancholy; it tortures by its suppression; a flash of lightning or a drenching rain would have been a relief. For some moments neither had spoken.
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