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"I hope so," said the other cautiously. "You don't seem very cheerful about it. I presume you want me to testify to the urgency of the case. I am probably perjuring myself." He signed his name with a flourish. "When are you getting the licence and what's the hurry?" "I am getting the licence to-morrow," said Beale. "And the lady's name is ?"
Oh! the charge was too preposterous, as well as too horrible, to be entertained for an instant. Finally the prevailing opinion settled into this: that the young laird had probably admired the handsome shepherdess a little, and had left her for the heiress; and that, from jealousy and for revenge, the girl was now perjuring herself to ruin her late lover. Would her testimony be believed?
Some said of half a million roubles. "And do you know who is said to be the thief?" said Eugene Mihailovich to his wife. "Vassily, our former yard-porter. They say he is squandering the money, and the police are bribed by him." "I knew he was a villain. You remember how he did not mind perjuring himself? But I did not expect it would go so far."
He found a piece of slate, and in the darkness cut these words on it with his knife: "Me being about to die, I solemnly swear I didna see the minister marrying an Egyptian on the hill this nicht. May I burn in Hell if this is no true." This document he put in his pocket, and so preserved proof of what he was perjuring himself to deny.
"No, I cannot! I cannot! I just feel that I can't marry my cousin without perjuring myself." "Surely you don't love any one else, Louise?" "What chance have I had to love anyone, except my old mammy? I don't know anything about the love which I feel should lead to marriage. I have just been treated like a child, and then without any girlhood at all I'm to be married to one that I shrink from.
"The O'Doughertys are not accustomed to perjuring themselves; and it's a trouble I would not take for any man, if he were my own father even; no, not for all the places in the revenue that ever were created, nor for all the bank notes ever you cheated mankind out of, Mr. Hopkins, into the bargain. No offence.
No, George must have had some other reason for perjuring his unpleasant soul, and the only one I could think of was that he had purposely turned the case against me in order to shield the real murderer. He had been fairly well acquainted with the dead man, I knew their tastes indeed ran on somewhat similar lines and it was just possible that he was aware who had committed the crime.
You'll see it enough when it's set up, and you'll go about perjuring your soul by denying that I was ever on the committee." "Hush," she said, "do be quiet; people will think you're cross because you were overruled." On the other side of the statue the sculptor had been receiving congratulations all the afternoon, and now Mr. Calvin and Mrs.
The Count of Brederode was left the choice of either taking the prescribed oath or resigning the command of his squadron of cavalry. After many fruitless attempts to evade the alternative, on the plea that he did not hold office in the state, he at last resolved upon the latter course, and thereby escaped all risk of perjuring himself.
Lounsbury's face darkened. He was lightly ironical no longer. He urged his mount forward. "Don't argue with me, you infernal blackguard," he said. "You can prove anything you want to by a lot of perjuring, thieving land-grabbers. Don't I know 'em! If you filed on this claim you were hired to do it. You hadn't an idea of settling, or building a home.
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