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If you come here to me, hoping to delude me by the language with which you tell the country people their fortunes at fairs and races, the sooner you go away the better. I am ready to listen to you patiently: if you need help, I am ready to give it you; but it is time and labour lost to practise gipsy jargon upon me."
She was not prepared for a sort of tremble in the blankness of his voice. "Six weeks? Six years sixty years more like. Don't delude yourself, Fleur; don't delude yourself!" Fleur turned in alarm. "Father, what is it?" Soames came close enough to see her face. "Don't tell me," he said, "that you're foolish enough to have any feeling beyond caprice. That would be too much!" And he laughed.
Not having much vanity, nor any very acute self-conceit, he did not delude himself into the idea of winning Evelyn's affections; he rather sought to entangle her judgment, to weave around her web upon web, not the less dangerous for being invisible.
There is something of you in her; but she is no more than a brilliant sketch, no better than Honorine. There is Eugene Grandet. But no; Balzac never painted your portrait." Like all good talkers, he knew how to delude his listeners into the belief that they were taking an important part in the conversation.
Satan is abroad among the brethren even now; but let the old vexed topics rest. Sooner than fret thyself again, thou shalt have Lois to be thy wife, though my heart was set far differently for thee. 'No, Manasseh, said Lois. 'I love you well as a cousin, but wife of yours I can never be. Aunt Hickson, it is not well to delude him so.
I ain't a-going, if I know it, to run the risk of being plotted against. 'You are always plotting, and delude yourself into the belief that everybody else is doing the like, I think, said I. 'Perhaps so, Master Copperfield, he replied. 'But I've got a motive, as my fellow-partner used to say; and I go at it tooth and nail. I mustn't be put upon, as a numble person, too much.
Then I wrote an article for newspapers, in which I have shown what should be generally known regarding the spirit manifestations which commenced with raps by the mediumship of the Fox Girls to delude, as cunning foxes are accustomed to delude, such as would not receive truth which was disclosed in our message, and were discovered, when they were tried according to our mission at the medium Christina Beil's, which, means the Christian hatchet or the Christian axe, an instrument for destruction, that they were deluding and destroying spirits, by whose influence destruction of life and property will continue until it will be stopped by receiving and spreading our message of Peace.
Then he said he thought he knew you, and handed me this card." "So he thinks to delude me by masquerading under a false name! He must suspect that I am his ward." "Of course you won't see him?" "No." "What shall I say?" "That I don't remember the name, and decline to see him." "Won't that increase his suspicions?" "I can't help it." "Very well."
It spoke plainly of the effort which it had cost the invalid to trace even those brief lines. He did not try to delude himself any more, but all that day remained alone, face to face with his despair. He went out after nightfall, and stole up cautiously to the house where Constance was staying. It is not only ghosts that walk.
"But one," said I. "There is a conspiracy on the part of one or more persons to delude Mrs. Ocumpaugh into believing the child dead. They blundered over it, but they came very near succeeding." "Who blundered, and what is the meaning of the conspiracy you hint at? Tell me. Tell me what such men as you think." Her plastic features had again shown a change.
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