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A man, suddenly struck with palsy in the leg or arm, or who had newly lost those members, frequently endeavours, at first to move them, and employ them in their usual offices. Here he is as much conscious of power to command such limbs, as a man in perfect health is conscious of power to actuate any member which remains in its natural state and condition. But consciousness never deceives.
"Yes, I will go!" she went on, hurriedly. "This last is too much! It is not fit that I should keep up the pretence longer." The husband burst out with a rude and somewhat hollow laugh. "Pretence, you say! Nay, madam, you miscall it. A pretence is a thing that deceives, and I have never been deceived. Do not flatter yourself. I have read you like a page of large print, these twenty months.
He never shall be your husband, and so much the better for you. He has seduced you, and you love him, but you will soon get over that." "Never, unless he deceives me." "He has deceived you already. I am sure he has told you that he is rich, that he is a man of rank, and that he will make you happy; and all that is a lie." "How can you know all this?" "Experience experience is my great teacher.
I am Monsieur Durand you know, Durand of Meaux? Exactly A woman deceives me How did I learn it? By the telephone. My friend Durand Durand of Etampes We are not related Emile Durand said to me: Durand, why haven't you a telephone?
An Irishman may like romance, but he will say, to use a frequent Shavian phrase, that it is "only romance." A great part of the English energy in fiction arises from the very fact that their fiction half deceives them.
Give my dear little goddaughter Irene a kiss for me. Oh, I am so glad she is growing prettier every day! Paris, July 8th 18 . Dear Edgar, Stupidity was invented by our sex. When a woman deceives or deserts us, synonymous transgressions, we are foolish enough to prolong to infinity our despair, instead of singing with Metastasio "Grazie all' inganni tuoi Al fin respir' o Nice!" Alas! such is man!
So I shall write to the secretary and explain the matter, and tell him that next year and in the future generally the collection will be devoted to its original purpose." "Great heavens!" ejaculated Mr. Quest to himself. "And the man must know that in all human probability the place will be sold over his head before he is a year older. I wonder if he puts it on or if he deceives himself.
"What is that you see?" I asked. "Why it may be the curl of some wave, or a low shore, with some scattered trees on it, or a fleet of prahus; or it may be only fancy, for this uncertain light deceives one," he replied. "However, I'll go aloft and take a better look before I tell the master, and frighten him and the ladies out of their wits."
Placed under the sacred charge of a king, and a belted knight, has she oh! answer me, I implore thee been insulted by the licentious addresses of one of that king's own lineage? Answer! I am a Jew but I am a father and a man." "This pretended passion deceives us not," said the Dominican, who, himself cut off from the ties of life, knew nothing of their power.
They had just finished when the great dog came bouncing in with a basket in his mouth. "Mother wants eggs: will you come to the barn and get them? Hay is wholesome, and you can feed the doves if you like," said David, leading the way with Bran rioting about him. "Why don't he offer to put up a swing for me, or get me a doll? It's the pinafore that deceives him.
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