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"But how did you know you were going to see me?" "My dear child, do you suppose for one minute that I fell for that Belle Harcourt business? Didn't you know that I would know that that very first letter was written by your fairy fingers?" "Why, Mr. Cameron!" exclaimed Adele, "weren't you really fooled?" "You WERE!" exclaimed Daisy. "You were at first, anyway."
"Did you ever see anything quite so shameless as the way he fooled that poor little Grassini woman?" "About the ballet-girl, you mean?" "Yes, he persuaded her the girl was going to be the lion of the season. Signora Grassini would do anything for a celebrity."
"They are safe in the Temple by now!" shouted Santerne hoarsely, in savage triumph at seeing them all baffled. At first it seemed as if the wrath of the infuriated populace, fooled in its lust for vengeance, would vent itself against the commandant of Paris and his soldiers; for a moment even Santerre's ruddy cheeks had paled at the sudden vision of this unlooked for danger.
Genius makes many enemies, but it makes sure friends friends who forgive much, who endure long, who exact little; they partake of the character of disciples as well as friends. Experience. 'Tis a pity that the more one sees, the more suspicious one grows. One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated one must be made a fool very often in order not to be fooled at last!
This training has tired me out," and he sat down on the grass. "Any one want to compete against the turtle?" asked Ned. "Come on now. Remember, it's free-for-all." But no one seemed to care to contest, and, amid yells and laughter at the manner in which they had been fooled, the boys began arranging impromptu races among themselves.
Butler deals with Filley when Filley has fooled the people into electing his men, and vice versa. It is Croker and Platt over again on a smaller scale. These two men have all the corporations by their throats.
He could say that, knowing the facts, being one of the principals himself in the graft that was going on! could say that and follow it up with a homily upon honesty in public life say it with an exalted look upon his face! How completely a bit of unsuspected truth could alter an entire perspective! How easily he had been fooled when he became too inquisitive! And his uncle?
John Dory turned his head slowly towards his wife. A sickening fear had arisen in his heart gripped him by the throat. Fooled once more, and by Peter Ruff! "It isn't Spencer!" Maud said huskily. "Mr. Ruff," she added, turning to him, "you know very well that this is not the Mr. Spencer Fitzgerald whom you promised to bring here to-night Mr. Spencer Fitzgerald to whom I was once engaged."
Why, Miss Margery, I ain't been on no more 'scursions than this old machine settin' here. When I took Mrs. Peckinbaugh's sewin' home, I carried the children with me, like she told me, for her to see how I'd fixed the clothes she give me. She give us a reception like the president's, sandwiches and lemonade and iced cakes and street-car fare back home. I laugh every time I think how I fooled Mrs.
Bobbsey. "This Confederate bill looks very much like some of ours, and a person in a hurry might have been fooled by it." "Oh, nonsense!" broke in Mr. Mason. "There was no excuse for Frank being fooled as he was. I won't listen to any such talk! He lost me twenty dollars and he'll have to make it up to me, somehow." "But how can he, when he has run away?" asked Mr.
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