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A young girl who reasons on love falls into love, especially if she have no one in whom to confide. "The pretended lace-seller duly came the next day with a box of lace. I told her to come into my room, and then speaking to her to force her to raise her eyes I saw before me the being who exerted such a powerful influence over me.
Pizarro, according to the usual artifice of his countrymen, pretended to come as the ambassador of a powerful monarch, to offer his aid against those enemies who disputed his title to the throne.
There was a pause, then another gesture, which he pretended not to understand. "Your pistol!" said the voice in a whisper through the mask. He felt the cold steel at his forehead press a little closer; he also felt how steady it was. He was no fool.
"I don't think I ever met anyone in my life quite like you," he said. "What's the objection to the girl?" demanded Shirley. "Every objection. I don't want her in my family." "Anything against her character?" To better conceal the keen interest she took in the personal turn the conversation had taken, Shirley pretended to be more busy than ever with the papers.
But Constance, mastering her sobs with a great effort, rose to her feet and put her friend's hand aside. "Do you think tears are a relief to me?" she said with bitterness. "You are mistaken. They are caused by his words his pretended grief and sympathy with me for what he calls my great loss.
The ancient constitution was in time restored, and the Church and the Crown were invested with greater powers than they had enjoyed previously to their overthrow. So hateful had been the consequences of Whig rule, that the people were inclined rather to trust the talons of arbitrary power than to take refuge under the wing of these pretended advocates of popular rights.
Again and thirdly, If it be nevertheless pretended that my information and knowledge of mankind, however extensive, and however painfully acquired, by constant domestic enquiry, and by foreign travel, is, natheless, incompetent to the task of recording the pleasant narratives of my Landlord, I will let these critics know, to their own eternal shame and confusion as well as to the abashment and discomfiture of all who shall rashly take up a song against me, that I am NOT the writer, redacter, or compiler, of the Tales of my Landlord; nor am I, in one single iota, answerable for their contents, more or less.
"You mean that she professes to act on the new theories? The stuff that awful women rave about on platforms?" "Oh, I don't think she pretended to have a theory " "She hadn't even that excuse?" "She had the excuse of her loneliness, her unhappiness of miseries and humiliations that a woman like you can't even guess.
It was pretended that the country was not safely secured by ships of private parties, and that when they arrived alone by unforeseen accidents, they happened unexpectedly, to the ruin of the country; as well as the beaver fallen to a low price and which was restored only at the marriage of the king should keep up.
I pretended to be asleep, and soon heard the thieves on the move again. I therefore stole silently from my bed, and discharged both my pistols in the air, bellowing out, with the lungs of an ensign, "Choor! choor! choor!" which my companion perfectly understood to be, thieves! thieves! thieves!
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