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"Well, don't commit yourself until you get there; then you can make your own observations." She took his remark as almost anybody else would have felt obliged to take it just for what it sounded. Nobody understood better than Paston the deceptive quality resident in a truth plumply told. "Shall I see Cecilia Ingles there?"
With their grotesque shapes, and their outlines lost in a deceptive haze, they brought to mind giant animals, worthy of antediluvian times. They might have been a herd of enormous whales, suddenly turned to stone. These disrupted masses proclaimed their essentially volcanic character. New Zealand is, in fact, a formation of recent plutonic origin.
They shook hands in silence. 'I am so grieved Marian began with broken voice. 'Thank you. I know the girls have told you all about it. We knew for the last month that it must come before long, though there was a deceptive improvement just before the end. 'Please to sit down, Mr Milvain. Father went out not long ago, and I don't think he will be back very soon.
C. finally grew tired of my deceptive, babyish nature and ultra-interest in books and puzzles, but I cherished an undiminished affection for him, and when he was detained at home for a fortnight with a broken arm, I wrote him a passionate letter, which I sobbed over and actually wetted with my tears. But the fervor of my passion died at the close of the year.
Now his voice seemed to come from the west, now from the north, the south, the east; it was the most deceptive, the most elusive thing. "Ah there he is," Anthony cried, of a sudden, and pointed. "Where? Where?" breathlessly asked Susanna, anxious as if life and death hung on the question. "There look!" said Anthony, pointing again.
You, too, young master, to give your evidence." At this the boys burst out crying, begging us not to appear, using all those deceptive arts which the London thieves practise from childhood. I, who was new to the world's deceits, was touched to the marrow by their seeming misery. The constable roughly silenced them. "I know you," he said. "I had my eye on you two ever since Christmas.
"Not at all," answered Ricky with that deceptive softness in her voice which masked her rising temper. "We are only too grateful to be allowed to share a secret." And then her brother guessed that she did not mean Creighton's secret but some other. She crossed the room and rang the bell for Letty-Lou to bring coffee. Something triumphant in her step added to Val's suspicion.
"But it can bring you all that will cause you to feel no longing for that deceptive illusion. You can forget that such a thing exists can forget it in the renewed exuberance of vitality which is sheer enjoyment of living. Well, wish me luck. 'Good-bye' is a dreadful word, but it has to be said." He had risen and stood blindly, half-bewilderedly.
The sun rose higher and poured down into the narrow valley with its fringe of deceptive green; but though the trees became bigger and bushier in their tops the water did not come to the surface. It was underneath the sand, flowing along the bed-rock, and all that was needed was a solid reef of country-rock to bring it up to the surface.
At times, with ears forward and extended nostrils, the horse gazes intently at the rippling blue waters of the mirage, that most tantalizingly deceptive phenomenon of nature. May it never be the lot of my reader to be misled by the illusive mirage as I have been. How could I mistake vapor for clear, gurgling water? Yet, how many times was I here deceived!
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