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To what extent this fear was merely deceptive or simulated or really true is something that will probably never be exactly known; but a strong instinct spoke out of this fear and out of its disgraceful and senseless persecution.

A polite official called upon me, to whom I showed, with simulated indignation, my official card and my Chinese passport, and I hinted to him in English that this interference with my rights as a traveller from England, protected by the favour of the Emperor, would let him mark my word be made an international question.

When Low returned she hoped to gather from his eyes and manner what had passed between him and her former lover. But beyond a mere gentle abstraction at times he retained his usual calm. She was at last forced to allude to it herself with simulated recklessness. "I suppose I didn't get a very good character from my last place?" she said, with a laugh.

Adduction and abduction movements of the fingers are lost. Adduction of the thumb is carried out, not by the paralysed adductor pollicis, but the movement may be simulated by the long flexor and extensor muscles of the thumb.

"Would they shoot me?" she inquired in her most terrified manner, her eyes wide open with beautifully simulated terror. He felt so sorry for the poor little frightened thing. He longed to gather her up in his arms and comfort her, reassure her. "They might," he returned, stepping nearer to her and visibly unbending. "I cannot have you take the risk. I won't allow it!"

As long as Napoleon's energy was elsewhere engaged, the ubiquity of English war-ships on the high seas rendered the use of "simulated papers" inordinately profitable; and even after he began to give his undivided attention to policing the harbors and guarding the coast-line, it continued to be fairly so.

In that event how do you figure you'd conduct yourself?" Joe smiled oddly, a little balefully. It was magic-quick, that change in his expression as swift as was the thought behind it. "I'd have my logs all cut and ready to haul as an excuse, wouldn't I?" he inquired with simulated anxiety.

They had probably notified all the police of the big cities, and detectives would be watching for him. He remembered instances in which defaulters had been captured. Consequently, he breathed heavily and paled somewhat. His hands felt as if they must have something to do. He simulated interest in several scenes without which he did not feel. He repeatedly beat his foot upon the floor.

This manual operations test of the control board, like Manning's on the radar bridge and Astro's on the power deck, is designed to test you under simulated space conditions. If you pass this test, your next step is real space." "Yes, sir." "I warn you, it isn't easy.

Of this treachery the duke strongly expressed his indignation in his letter to the Pope. Whether the matter was true or whether Cesare believed it to be true it is impossible to ascertain with absolute conviction. Had that been his only aim, letters expressing his simulated indignation would have been in better case to serve his ends had they been addressed to others.