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Still dallying with the note, he looked again at the youth, and as he looked, his confidence in him revived. No boy of such a noble countenance could possibly be an impostor.
It's my belief he's a liar and a thief and a damned impostor, sir. That's my belief, sir." He waxed warm as he vented his anger. "Well, I only suggested taking precautions. I never said any of these things," answered Barker, who had no idea of playing a prominent part in his own plot. "Don't give me any credit, Mr. Screw." "Now, see here, Mr. Barker; I'm talking to you.
Feeling as if the ground were passing from beneath her, Bertrande staggered, and caught at the nearest piece of furniture to save herself from falling; then, collecting all her strength to meet this extraordinary attack, she faced the old man. "What! my husband, your nephew, an impostor!" "Don't you know it?"
I sink to the earth, confounded by this unutterable hypocrisy. And did I entrust thee to a pretender, my blessed boy? Did I leave thee with an impostor, my innocent one?" the matron cries, fondling her son. "Who's an impostor, my lady?" asks the child.
She claimed Colonel Roseberry I wish to be strictly accurate she claimed the late Colonel Roseberry as her father. She told a tiresome story about her having been robbed of her papers and her name by an impostor who had personated her. She said the name of the impostor was Mercy Merrick.
"'A what! said Mr. Winkle starting. "'A humbug, Sir. I will speak plainer, if you wish it. An impostor, Sir. "With these words Mr. Pickwick turned slowly on his heel, and rejoined his friends." There is much life and fun and jollity and some vulgarity in Pickwick. There is a good deal of eating and far too much drinking.
Strauss says that, "in the presence of the believers in Jesus," the conviction that he was a false teacher an impostor "must have become every day more doubtful to him.
A man who was to be remembered in after-time by some as the father of modern chemistry and the founder of modern medicine; by others as madman, charlatan, impostor; and by still others as a combination of all these. To appreciate his work, something must be known of the life of the man. He was born near Maria-Einsiedeln, in Switzerland, the son of a poor physician of the place.
Impostor though he was, he would leave Silverdale better than he found it, and afterwards it would be of no great moment what became of him. Countless generations of toiling men had borne their petty sorrows before him, and gone back to the dust they sprang from, but still, in due succession, harvest followed seed-time, and the world whirled on.
The poems had merit, and that floated them for a long time; but the leak of falsehood made its way they sunk at last. And Macpherson? Well, if a poet will be an impostor, he must prepare to be remembered by posterity rather for his fraud than his poetry. He found time to paint some other subjects as well.
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