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'No, I was only wishing you had not had a Puritan fit, and seen and heard for yourself. Then I should not have had to tell you, and he sighed. 'I have no desire to be told, said Berenger, who had become more fixed in the conviction that it was an imposture. 'No desire! Ah! I have none when I knew what it was. But you ought to know.
France was not to despond, but to take courage, and fight. There was no imposture about her, only zeal and good sense, to impress upon the country the necessity of bravery and renewed exertions. The Maid set out for the deliverance of the besieged city in a man's attire, deeming it more modest under her circumstances, and exposing her to fewer annoyances.
A moment of silence, and then his voice rang out with a sort of sob. "Ah, madame," he cried chokingly, "dear madame, for you I " Madame Chalice arose with a little cry, for she knew whom he meant, and her heart ached for him. She forgot his imposture everything. "Ah, dear, dear monsieur!" she said brokenly.
The mission of De Guy had only been a decoy, to lure her into the hands of Maxwell. Hatchie was with her; but, alas! what could a slave do against the powerful machinations of such a villain as Maxwell? After obtaining the information which satisfied him of the imposture, he proceeded to New Orleans.
One of the most interesting things about Forster was his "receptivity." Stern and inflexible as he was in the case of old canons, he was always ready to welcome anything new or striking, provided it had merit and was not some imposture. I never met a better appreciator of genuine humour. He had been trained, or had trained himself; whatever shape it had, only let it have merit.
Now" he drew at his pipe "I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic. You are inclined to discredit one particular form of Imposture, because it is not generally admitted carries a certain discredit, and witness the heel edges of my trouser legs, witness yonder viands small rewards."
But there is no evidence in support of so serious an indictment. After showing that signs and portents attend every crisis in history, Mrs. Oliphant says: "Every great spiritual awakening has been accompanied by phenomena quite incomprehensible, which none but the vulgar mind can attribute to trickery and imposture;" but still she herself remains in doubt about the whole story.
On the contrary, they refer all these acts of kindness to imposture and design of lulling their suspicion, till an opportunity offers of striking a surer and severer blow; and thus, while the good man who hath received it hath truly forgotten the injury, the evil mind which did it hath it in lively and fresh remembrance.
If suddenly I were to sink into a deep sleep, from which you could not awake me, but in that sleep could answer questions with an accuracy which I could not pretend to when awake tell you what money you had in your pocket nay, describe your very thoughts it is not necessarily an imposture, any more than it is necessarily supernatural.
In the one, as in the other, no attempt was made to impress the imagination. Everywhere, the commonplace furniture of a London lodging-house was left without the slightest effort to alter or improve it by changes of any kind. Seen under the clearer light, Doctor Lagarde appeared to be the last person living who would consent to degrade himself by an attempt at imposture of any kind.
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