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I fear these double motives more than ever just now, but I am not your judge, and in my opinion it is going too far to give the name of baseness to it what do you think? You were going to employ your tears as a ruse in order to borrow money, but you also say in fact, you have sworn to the fact that independently of this your confession was made with an honourable motive.
And all of the young men married, in an hour, to girls whom they had never before seen, not ten, perhaps, failed in giving chivalrous protection, or ever took the possible, cruel advantage of this last, desperate ruse to escape the fettering guardianship of parentage.
That night a fire blazed up from the shoulder of the western mountain and was answered from the Juate. At dawn ten men were in the saddle, riding swiftly, with Jefferson Creede at their head. It was like an open book to the cowmen now, that gathering of the sheep along the Alamo a ruse, a feint to draw them away from the Peaks while the blow was struck from behind.
"They want to tempt us into making another raid because the distance will be shorter for us to go." "Then I'm afraid they'll be disappointed, sir, for the Colonel isn't likely to risk losing any of his men while we've got all those bullocks to eat." "I don't know what to make of it," said Denham; then, thoughtfully: "It looks to me like some bit of cunning a sort of ruse to get within rifle-shot.
"I see it all," said Demorest, half seriously: "you were coquetting with him, and he was jealous." But Dona Rosita shook her head and turned impetuously, and said in English to Joan: "No, it was astutcia a trick, a ruse. Because when my father have arrived at his house, he is agone. And so every time. When he have the fit he goes not to his house. No.
If this was a ruse on her part to veil the connection between their movements, it was a fruitless caution. None who had seen her before could fail now to observe the softened character of her beauty, and those who saw "A thousand blushing apparitions start Into her face" whenever his eyes rested on her, could scarcely doubt his influence over her.
He behaved with ever greater nobility on this occasion. Having by a ruse escaped from the Soga troops, he was urged by his followers to flee to the eastern provinces, and there raising an army, to march back to the attack of the Soga. There is reason to think that this policy would have succeeded.
It must be allowed that the ruse of the felucca was well planned; and it now seemed about to be admirably executed.
He added with the air of a profound thinker, "One is indebted sometimes to fortune, sometimes to ruse, for the happy issue of great enterprises." The boat made its way slowly towards the right shore. The young girl watched the unknown man with secret terror. He had carefully turned off the light of his dark lantern.
The Boston men were puzzled and confused by this sudden change of front. Later, all parties met at Drew's house, and Vanderbilt brought the Boston men to terms by proposing a plan to Drew whereby they would be entirely left out. This ruse succeeded and a written agreement to the advantage of all, but at the expense of the outside stockholders and of the general public, was then drawn up.
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