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She immediately informed him of the occasion of her so speedy return, and of her suspicions of the woman who had pretended to convey to him his child.
The conclusion of this manifesto, where the king still professed his resolution of adhering to the triple alliance, was of a piece with the rest of it. Lewis's declaration of war contained more dignity, if undisguised violence and injustice could merit that appellation. He pretended only, that the behavior of the Hollanders had been such, that it did not consist with his glory any longer to bear.
That strength of character which it had always delighted him to read in her features was become an ominous hardness. He felt his heart sink as he looked at her. 'Is poverty going to have the usual result in our case? he asked, drawing nearer. 'I never pretended that I could be indifferent to it. 'Still, don't you care to try and resist it? She gave no answer.
"The Arminians," said the despatch, "are so filled with bitterness that they would rather the Republic should be lost than that their pretended grievances should go unredressed."
Then seeing my face, she came romping in, followed by Mat and Beverly and little Charlie Bent, all wet and hilarious. They gave no heed to the Indian boy, who pretended to be asleep. Once, however, I caught him watching Beverly, and his eyes were like dagger points. "We are having the best times. You must get well right away, because we are going to stay." They all began to clatter, noisily.
Fatima, the favourite, the woman to whom his word should have been law, the woman who had always pretended to think him something more than mortal, now not only shunning but despising him in the midst of his misfortunes. This knowledge did more towards subduing the giant than all his other sufferings combined. "Old Golah looks very down in the mouth," remarked Terence to his companions.
Yet Rowlett pretended to ponder the proposition which he burned ardently to accept.
He pretended to be still Antony's friend and was endeavoring to console him for the disasters inflicted by the Parthians and in that way to cure any jealousy that might be felt at his own victory and the decrees which followed it.
All the ladies who pass stop their carriages to look at the pretty fellow. Madame d'Orleans has been so little disposed to undertake her husband's defence in public, that she has pretended to believe the charges against him, although no person in the world knows better than she does that the whole is a lie.
It was circulating about in hip pockets and suit-cases and in automobiles with false-bottomed seats, and Denver knew too well from past experience what the temptation was likely to be; yet for all his admonitions when he met Owen in the morning he caught the bouquet of whisky. It was disguised with sen-sen and he pretended not to notice it but his hopes of first money began to wane.
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