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Thou who didst trifle so wantonly with Treason, now gravely front the grim comrade thou hast won; thou scheming desecrator of the Household Gods, now learn, to the last page of dark knowledge, what the hearth is without them! Gabriel was strangely moved as he beheld that proud and solitary despair.

"In all your scheming you hadn't set your heart on my coming out and does modesty permit me to say it? helping a little." "Now, you HAVE helped wonderfully, and you must not think I don't appreciate it." "Ah, how richly I am rewarded!" She looked at him with a laughing and perplexed little frown, but only said, "No irony, sir."

"There is no one one knows better than you that after the row in the street, when Mountjoy was, I believe, the aggressor, he was again seen by another person. I hate such deceit and scheming." Here Augustus smiled. "What are you sniggering there at, you blockhead?" "Your hatred, sir, at deceit and scheming.

No sooner were the young Turks in control of the government, however, than they began to change. "Turkey for the Turks, and for the Turks only" became their motto. The thought of the loss of Crete roused their anger and they began scheming to get it back under Turkish rule.

Life is lying and scheming to get what you want. Life is not caring giving up getting hardened I know it. I loathe it." Katie sat there quite still. She was frightened. "And you! Here in a place like this what do you know about it? Why you're nothing but an outsider!" An outsider, was she? and she had thought that Ann The girl's passion seemed suddenly to flow into one long, cunning look.

He considered, and explained to me, that poetry must be said with an intonation, and that all the value of it resided in the rhyme. His theories were boring to listen to and impossible to execute. Then I could not understand Aricie's character, for it did not seem to me that she loved Hippolyte at all, and she appeared to me to be a scheming flirt.

What's all this scheming and planning about that's going on here? Are one of you fellows trying to get a Presidential nomination?" Ham seated himself on a chair facing the fellows. They were lounging on a big window-seat in a corner of the game-room, talking earnestly in low tones. "Come, now, let's hear about it. What's the game? Say, fellows, I just heard a rattling good story."

We are keeping our secret as well as we can, hoping for relief from Montgomery, and scheming to receive assurance of it. We asked Mrs. MacLeod's help, and she gave it!" The logic of this appeal left MacLeod no reply. "How could you!" he only exclaimed, glancing reproachfully at his wife. "That is what I have always said," cried Stuart, gayly, perceiving that the crisis was overpast.

To Camylott he came because it was his refuge in all unrestful hours or deeply grave ones the broad, heavenly scene spread out before it soothed him when he gazed through its windows, the waving and rustle of the many huge trees on every side never ceased to bring back to him something of the feeling he had had in his childhood, that they were mighty and mysterious friends who hushed him as a child is hushed to sleep; and so he came to Camylott for a few days' repose before re-entering Court life with its tumults and broils and scheming.

It would want a lot of scheming, but I don't see why it should not be done. If I could once get her on board, I could cruise about with her for any time, until she gave in." "You would have to get a fresh crew, Carthew. I doubt whether your fellows would stand it." "No, I suppose some of them might kick. At any rate, I would not trust them. No, I should have to find a fresh crew.