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I had not been quite four and twenty hours in England yet, and I was becoming a humbug already. My stepmother was her charming self again the moment my question had passed my lips. Society provided it was not society at the mill was always attractive as a topic of conversation. "Your absence was the only drawback," she answered. They are most anxious to meet you.
We can stand up strong and bold against hard usage, and we gain self-respect by resistance; but when you come down to conciliations and what you call healing measures, we feel as if you were going to humbug us, and there is not a devilment comes into our heads we would not do, just to see how you'll bear it; and it's then your London newspapers cry out: "What's the use of doing anything for Ireland?
Not that she did not enjoy a good story: her work done, she liked few things better; and he often smiled at the ease with which she lived herself into the world of make-believe, knowing, of course, that it WAS make-believe and just a kind of humbug. But poetry, and the higher fiction!
But there is no book which can instruct one to read the human countenance correctly; and some special circumstance must have roused the suspicions of these four persons so much as to cause them to make these observations, and they were not as usual deceived by the humbug of this skilled actor, a past master in the art of deception.
Hearing this I at once wrote to Grant, begging him to come on if he could do so, and to bring with him all the best of my property, or as much as he could of it, as I now saw there was more cunning humbug than honesty in what Rumanika had told me about the impossibility of our going north from Uganda, as well as in his saying sick men could not go into Uganda, and donkeys without trousers would not be admitted there, because they were considered indecent.
I like your wee man, but I don't like you. I think you're an awful humbug of a woman!..." Mrs. Cream stood still as if she had been suddenly paralysed. "You don't like me!..." she said at last, utterly incredulous. "No, I don't." "Oh!" She raised her hands, and for a few moments he imagined that she was about to strike him. Then she dropped them to her side again and laughed.
To-morrow morning, I intend to travel to church in your beautiful village, repent of my sins, and on Monday travel home to New York, where I shall at once take measures to rid myself of the title I wear this evening, by earning my bread in the old-fashioned way, by the sweat of my brow. 'Humbug, ladies and gentlemen, is a pill not at all disagreeable to take, when gilded carefully.
"The wind declined toward daybreak, and the ship recommenced her voyage at 8 A. M.; but under treble reefed topsails and reefed courses. "I caught the captain and mate talking together in the friendliest way possible. That Hudson is a humbug; there is some mystery between him and the mate. "To-day H. R. was on deck for several hours, conversing sweetly and looking like the angel she is.
Babette put her finger in her mouth and looked incredulous. She had a vague belief in angels, but Henri, with the cheap cynicism of the modern French lad was anything but sure about them. "Mother," said he, "There's a boy in our school who says there is no God at all, and that it's no use having priests or Cardinals or Cathedrals, it's all rubbish and humbug!"
His vices were patent; too incurable an optimism; an admiration for beauty such as must sometimes have caused him to forget which woman he was most in love with; too thin a skin; too hot a heart; hatred of humbug, and habitual neglect of his own interest. Unmarried, and with many friends, and many enemies, he kept his body like a sword-blade, and his soul always at white heat.
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