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"And so continued to the end," answered Alain, with well-simulated gaiety much too bon gentilhomme to betray rage or anguish for pecuniary loss. "After all," said de Finisterre, lighting his cigarette, "the uncertain goddess could not do you much harm; the stakes were small, and your adversary, the Prince, never goes double or quits." "Nor I either.
He dined at an hotel with some friends, and when he got home he found a note in which the Princess begged him to pardon her, and promised to justify her conduct, for which purpose she would see him at eight o'clock that evening. Scarcely, however, had he read her note, when two of his brother-officers came to see him, and asked him, with well-simulated anxiety, whether he were ill.
Then she knew he was gloating over her. With an appearance of grave concern, and not a little well-simulated excitement, she approached him during the morning where he was working at the corral fence. She was determined to discover the truth. "I have some bad news for you," she said. "Shucks," he returned, with a grin that almost disarmed her; "you don't say!" "Yes," she continued.
Then I asked, with well-simulated indignation, "Your wife has not persuaded you that I have cheated her out of some money, has she?" "Why, no. Not at all," he answered, looking at the pavement. "It isn't that at all. The thing is driving me mad." "But what is it?" I shouted, in a rage "'S-sh!" he said, nervously. "If you are going to be excited like that it's no use speaking at all.
'Now, Molly, tell the horse to spout, said lady Margaret, with such well-simulated cheerfulness as only mothers can put on with hearts ready to break. 'Mother Mary, tell the horse to spout, said Molly; and up went the watery parabolas. The old flame of delight flushed the child's cheek, like the flush in the heart of a white rose.
Ah' when he gets back to Milpitas, or Sleepy Hollow, or wherever he hangs out, an' tells how the boys does things in Oakland, it's dollars to doughnuts they won't be a rube in his district that'd come to town to drive if they offered ten dollars an hour." "It was awful," Saxon said, then laughed well-simulated appreciation. "But that was nothin'," Billy went on.
With a sudden, low exclamation, Jimmie Dale jumped for the table, and, snatching up the telephone, rattled the hook violently. "Give me" his voice came in well-simulated gasps, each like a man fighting for every word "give me police headquarters! Quick! QUICK! I've been shot!" The wounded man on the floor raised himself on his elbow. "What are you doing?" he demanded in a startled way.
The young commander's eyes flashed fire at the seeming insult, and in tones vibrating with well-simulated passion he threatened the envoy with condign punishment for daring to give such a message to the commander-in-chief at his headquarters in the midst of his army. Let him and his men forthwith lay down their arms.
Malfeasance, bribery you know the legal terms in which such conduct might be defined better than I." For a moment Hendricks laughed then with a well-simulated coolness he retorted. "A weapon hardly available to your hand, Mr. Burton. You will recall that I acted for you. To accuse me as agent would be to convict yourself as principal." But Hamilton's laugh was the more confident. "Think again.
"Kindly tell Mr. Dale that unless he comes to the 'phone now," a feminine voice, her voice, in well-simulated indignation, was saying, "it will be a very long day before I shall trouble myself to " Jimmie Dale clapped his hand firmly over the mouthpiece of the instrument. Thank God for that clever brain of hers! She understood! "Repeat what you said before, Jason," he instructed hurriedly.
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