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I saw Hermodorus the Epicurean perjuring himself for 40 pounds, Agathocles the Stoic suing a pupil for his fees, lawyer Clinias stealing a bowl from the temple of Asclepius, and Herophilus the cynic sleeping in a brothel. Not to mention the multitude of burglars, litigants, usurers, duns; oh, it was a fine representative show! Fr.
"I'm getting up the spiritual momentum necessary to tell you that I'm a thief! Truly. Anyhow, three choice gentlemen are so sure of it that they went to the trouble of perjuring themselves and having me arrested " "Arrested? "Exactly. And the evidence is very strong. I almost think I must be guilty." "Are you?" Pierce shook his head. "Of course you're not.
Fancy the secret meetings between the perjuring husband and wife, the denials of having seen each other, the clambering in at bedroom windows, and the hiding in closets! There'd be little cooling then." "Yes; but admitting this, or something like it, to be true, you are not the only one in the world to see it, dear little Sue.
"I pledged you my word that I would do so, dear brother" said the emperor, smiling; "and you yourself said a while ago, 'Never will an Emperor of Austria break his word and incur the disgrace of perjuring himself. Well, read to me now what you have written. I should like to hear it from your own lips."
She made a sort of pretence at eating, just to please her old nurse, who fidgeted about the room; now stopping by Laura's chair, and urging her to take this, that, or the other; now running to the dressing-table to make some new arrangement about the all-important wedding-toilet; now looking out of the window and perjuring her simple soul by declaring that "it" namely, the winter sky was going to clear up.
Now that she knew that those sacred manuscripts written by the dear, dead hand had not been destroyed by printers, every fibre of her passionate self craved their possession. We argued futilely, as people must, who haven't the ghost of a case. "But why has Jaffery lied?" "The manuscript of 'The Diamond Gate," I declared, again perjuring myself, "has nothing whatever to do with Jaffery and me.
Were I to give you that word, would it have any weight with you for five minutes? Would you not be persuaded immediately that I was perjuring myself to avoid a misfortune?" "You hesitate," interrupted Boleslas. Then, with a burst of wild laughter, he said, "It is then true! I like that better!
He thrilled at the thought of Jennie perjuring herself to save that abandoned woman. What mysteries these feminine creatures were! "Wal, there's where our little deal stands now," resumed Euchre, meditatively. "You know, Buck, as well as me thet if you'd been some feller who hadn't shown he was a wonder with a gun you'd now be full of lead.
One thing's agin it I dunnot fancy your talk out o' th' newspapers speakin' ill o' th' Queen an' that I reckon we'd ha' words if ye carried on that road when we was mon an' wife." Wharton rubbed his hands and looked embarrassed; he had hitherto had no hesitation in perjuring himself, but he could not for the life of him swallow his principles.
But if you will not allow us to be a free people, there is only another appellation left; which, I doubt, my Lord Chief Justice Whitshed would call me to an account for, if I venture to bestow: For, I observed, and I shall never forget upon what occasion, the device upon his coach to be Libertas et natale solum; at the very point of time when he was sitting in his court, and perjuring himself to betray both.
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