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The circumstances leading to his engagement in the French service as a member of the Franco-American Corps proves this. Millard was a real human being, he had no grammar, no polish, no razor, safety or otherwise, but likewise no pretense, no "swank."

My dear, I understand that God knows, I understand too well but have pity on me. Think how I have waited, and how time has drifted on and on for me. Must I wait the best years of my life? Won't you let me add the whole of my love to time's cure for healing the old wound?" There was no pretense in his pleading, no pretense in the passion with which his voice shook.

It is more interesting to hear the mechanic the real chauffeur talk when he is flat on his back making good the mistakes of his master, but his conversation could not be printed verbatim et literatim, it is explosive and without a muffler. The man who cannot run his machine a thousand miles without expert assistance should make no pretense to being a chauffeur, for he is not one.

But he could not hate her now not when she lay there in his arms with her tear-stained cheek against his heart, her eyes shut, and with that pathetic droop to her lips. Gently he tucked back the locks of hair that kept blowing across her forehead. Very tenderly, with a whimsical pretense at self-pity, he upbraided her for the trouble she was giving him.

"Now sing it to the tune of 'When this Cruel War is Over, called out the cook-humorist. "Right face," commanded Si. A roar went up from the camp-follower audience at the hopeless tangle which ensued. No two of the boys seemed to have done the same thing. Several had turned to the left, and all were sprinting around in various ways in a more or less genuine pretense of executing the order.

The British were still enforcing their so-called "right of search," and many an American ship was left short-handed far out at sea, after a British naval lieutenant had picked the best of her crew on the pretense that they were British subjects.

Gordon looked down at the rioters, who were now only keeping up a pretense of a parade. It would be worse tomorrow, he supposed; and there would be no cops. The image of the old woman and her husband in the little liquor store where he'd had his first experience came back to him. He wondered how well barricaded they were.

Lydia's unworldly face, wearing a faint nimbus of unimagined self-immolation, and Fanny's full of love and solicitude, the face which he had almost determined to forget. He was going to Lydia. Every newly awakened instinct of his manhood bade him go. She came to him at once, and without pretense of concealment began to speak of her father.

The name Stackpole was not entirely unknown to Cuthbert, since it had been mentioned by several people when speaking of the Far Northwest and those who were to be met with there and if his recollections were correct he was of the impression that the same Stackpole had been held up as an example of a somewhat lawless character, who made a pretense of cruising about looking for valuable timber in places where the lumbermen, soon to come, could float the logs down a river to a market; but who was suspected of other practices of a less honest character.

Again, as was eloquently and forcefully said by Daniel Webster in the U. S. Senate in 1834: "The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty, and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just division of political power. Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretense of a desire to simplify government.