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I'd move away tomorrow and cut the whole gossipy, deceitful, hypocritical lot of 'em if I was n't afraid of closing the house and so losing Susanna, if she should ever feel like coming back to us." These words and the thought back of them were too much for John's self-control. The darkness helped him and his need of comfort was abject.
"She wants to be rid of me," the mind of Louis Raincy went storming on to itself. "She is a hard-hearted, deceitful " But while he was thus inwardly detailing the character of Patsy to ease his anger, he was also by force of habit obeying her orders.
'Now Rowley, let's be cool, let's be businesslike, said I. 'Riches are deceitful, particularly when you haven't counted them; and the first thing we have to do is to arrive at the amount of my- -let me say, modest competency. If I'm not mistaken, I have enough here to keep you in gold buttons all the rest of your life. You collect the gold, and I'll take the paper.
On catching sight of me, she gave a little start, blushed modestly, and greeted me cordially. Texas hospitality of an early day is too well known to need comment; I was at once introduced to the McLeod household. It was rather a pretentious ranch, somewhat dilapidated in appearance appearances are as deceitful on a cattle ranch as in the cut of a man's coat.
I'm deceitful," she said to herself, and when she saw George, she hated him. "I've been here for hours," he said as she approached. "There was no need to wait." "I'm not grudging the time." "Why speak of it then?" "I was afraid you wouldn't come. I brought a coat for you to sit on. The ground's wet." "I don't want to sit. I want to walk and walk into something soft soft and oblivious."
Should I? Should I really? Well then count, let me give you a little piece of information! The book of your misdeeds shall one day be served up as a banquet, and all the world be invited to partake of it. Ha! Devil! Deceitful impostor! That was madness! Wheugh! the biter bit!
Her aunt put the matter to her in a more cunning way than Steinmarc had done, and Linda felt herself unable to deny the charge. "Then let me tell you, that of all the young women of whom I ever heard, you are the most deceitful," continued Madame Staubach. "Do not say that, aunt Charlotte; pray, do not say that." "But I do say it. Oh, that it should have come to this between you and me!"
"When I reckon up the debt against you, I know that the only thing to wipe it out would be your life. Not taken by poison nor underhandedly, but torn out of your deceitful body as we stand face to face. If I could do that, it might be that my anger would be quenched." Again he drew his blade half out, and this time he did not shove it back.
He had been self-taught; and his studies, irregular though often deep, had given directions to his intellect frequently enthusiastic and unsound. His imagination preponderated over his judgment; and any pursuit that attracted his imagination won his entire devotion, until his natural sagacity proved it deceitful.
A crooked breast and shoulder, or the exuberance of flesh in the body either of man or woman, signifies the person to be extremely parsimonious and ingenious, and of a great understanding, but very covetous and scraping after the things of the world, attended also with a very bad memory, being also very deceitful and malicious; they are seldom in a medium, but either virtuous or extremely vicious.
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