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Ah, judge me, condemn me, curse me; but know, but feel, that in spite of all I have loved you, I still love you." Again he spoke with an enthusiasm which was not feigned. Though he had deceived her, he recognized only too well the value of the loyal creature before him, whom he feared he should lose. If he could not move her at the moment when he was about to fight a duel, when could he move her?
She could make no excuse for remaining in New York while her party went up to West Point make no excuse, that is, which would not also make trouble. And it was her policy never to do that. She thought and thought until she had nearly given herself the headache which before she had only feigned.
Bontius bade his friend farewell and left him, but Peter thrust his hand through his hair and stood gazing out of the window, until Barbara entered, laid his official costume on a chair and asked with feigned carelessness: "May I give Adrian some of the last biscuit? Meat is repulsive to him. He's lying on the bed, writhing in pain."
'You'll be for another forty on 'em, governor, as I judges, afore you turns your mind to breakfast, said Riderhood, when his visitor sat down, resting his chin on his hand, with his eyes on the ground. And very remarkably again: Riderhood feigned to set the scanty furniture in order, while he spoke, to have a show of reason for not looking at him. 'Yes.
As I read that passage I laughed with an amusement that was not feigned, and then I tore the paper into fragments which I scattered among the ashes. Dawson watched me and shrugged his shoulders. "We don't hardly like ter kill furriners " he said. "Them folks down below misunderstands hit an' raises hell but I reckon ef they won't take nuthin' but killin' they kin git kilt."
Fun and diversion are the order of the day, and rich and poor alike forget the cares which they have left behind them at home; and yet it is not all idle amusement, for there is a moral taught, and a practical sermon preached in every play. The subjects of the pieces are chiefly historical, feigned names being substituted for those of the real heroes.
March made up her mind that she would not buy any laces of the motherly old women who showed them under pent-roofs on way-side tables; and he waited patiently at the gate of the flower-gardens beyond the shops where March bought lavishly of sweetpease from the businesslike flower-woman, and feigned a grateful joy in her because she knew no English, and gave him a chance of speaking his German.
"O my most gracious lord," cried Mariana, "mock me not!" "You shall buy a better husband," said the Duke. "O my dear lord," said she, "I crave no better man." Isabella nobly added her prayer to Mariana's, but the Duke feigned inflexibility. "Provost," he said, "how came it that Claudio as executed at an unusual hour?"
Johnson, "in a feigned inscription, supposed to have been found in Norfolk, the country of sir Robert Walpole, then the obnoxious prime minister of this country, inveighs against the Brunswick succession, and the measures of government consequent upon it. To this supposed prophecy, he added a commentory, making each expression apply to the times, with warm anti-Hanoverian zeal."
Richard, conscious that Trenchard must no doubt regard him as a turn-tippet, flushed, and stood aside to give passage to the other. But Mr. Trenchard was by no means minded to pass. He clapped a hand on Richard's shoulder. "Nay," he cried, between laughter and feigned resentment. "Do you bear me ill-will, lad?" Richard was somewhat taken aback. "For what should I bear you ill-will, Mr.
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