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"Where were you on Tuesday night?" "That I refuse to tell as I have refused before, and shall always refuse." "Because you were here, and because you have too much wisdom to try to prove a false alibi." He looked at me half admiringly. "You are right in that," he said. "It is extremely foolish for any one to fake an alibi, and I certainly never should try to do so."
I hope, however, to prove to you very quickly that, while I may have made mistakes and played the part of a fool, I have acted with the most honorable intentions, as well as with a sincere desire to advance the cause to which I am pledged.
The despicable trick by means of which Geddis, or both of them, had shifted the defalcation loss to other shoulders proved two things conclusively: that the scheme had been well planned for in advance, and that the two old men had worked in collusion. I remembered my suspicion the one I couldn't prove that Withers had been as deep in the mud as Geddis was in the mire.
Doubtless, too, he believed that the manufactory would prove a remunerative investment, and that, on the general adoption of the railway system which he anticipated, he would derive solid advantages from the fact of his establishment being the only one of the kind for the special construction of locomotive engines. Mr.
At last, also lest memory prove illusive, she wrote the sentence down: "Wield leniently the dangerous gift of your witchcraft the freakish beauty of your perfect unmatched eyes."
They will crayon out an animal, a plant, or a country, so as to prove the existence of a germ in their minds which only wants cultivation. They astonish you with strokes of the most sublime oratory; such as prove their reason and sentiment strong, their imagination glowing and elevated.
"Perfectly, sir; my purpose is known and approved by more than one," said I. "And your letter, which I take a pleasure to thank you for, is all I could have hoped." "It was all I could squeeze out," said he; "and from what I know of the matter you design to meddle in, I can only pray God that it may prove sufficient." Child. Palm. Gallows. My Catechism.
"Ten napoleons are not to be found every day," continued the carpenter, after a moment's silence; "you may give them to me, if you like, in a week." "You will be able to prove to me, then, what you have said," replied Marillac, with hesitation, blushing in spite of himself at the part he was playing at that moment, upon the odious side of which he had not looked until now.
He sought her to relate his life, to prove the grandeur of his soul by the grandeur of his faults, to show the ruins of his desert.
And I came into the room at the wrong time. I can prove that Mrs. Amherst died of morphia-poisoning." "John!" Justine gasped out, pressing between them. Amherst gently put aside the hand with which she had caught his arm. "Wait a moment: this can't rest here. You can't want it to," he said to her in an undertone.
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