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Say, it's a gold mine, I tell you, and just five hundred of it is yours. There's no danger on earth to you, for you've got McLean that bamboozled you could sell out the whole swamp and he'd never mistrust you. What do you say?" Freckles' soul was satisfied. "Is that all?" he asked. "No, it ain't," said Wessner.
"And supposing he did have a personal interview for the purpose of setting forth his claims, do you think that Hugh Mainwaring would be bamboozled by any of his cheap trickery? No, sir, not for one moment. He would simply pronounce the whole thing a sham. Well, sir, if you will recall some of the testimony at the inquest, you will see that is precisely what occurred.
I can't everywhere and always be on my guard against every dear soul of them. Yet the moment I relax my attention for one day or even when I don't relax it I am bamboozled and led a dance by that arch Mme. Picardet, or that transparently simple little minx, Mrs. Granton. She's the cleverest girl I ever met in my life, that hussy, whatever we're to call her.
He could not in the least guess just what had in very deed happened, but he was far too clever a man to be bamboozled by Dick's maunderings. "Oh, that's it!" he exclaimed, with obvious incredulity. "Of course," Dick replied bravely, though he knew that the Inspector disbelieved his pretenses.
"Then, my friend Louis," the newcomer said, "understand me plainly. I am not here to be bamboozled, or to give you an opportunity for exercising any ability you may possess in the art of lying. I am here to see Delora, and if he is here, see him I will and must! If he is not here, well, it will come later. There is no roof nor any walls in London which will enclose that man and keep him from me!"
I was almost the only lad in the school whose parents were alive and at hand and in a good position, and my father's name stifled scandal. Most of the others were orphans, being cheaply educated by distant relatives or guardians, or else the sons of poor widows who were easily bamboozled by Snuffy's fluent letters, and the religious leaflets which it was his custom to enclose.
And very heartily did that deceived gentleman abuse his friend, when he had waited an hour, and found that he did not return at all. Then, poor gentleman! he knew that he had been bamboozled, cruelly treated, as he said himself. And he perfectly well understood his dear friend's object, too! "Such an intolerable, abominable coxcomb as that Ludovico is!
Did you ever hear of Martin Kelly? d d young robber that he is!" Anty blushed still deeper rose a little way from the sofa, and then sat down again. "Look you here, Anty I'll have the truth out of you. I'm not going to be bamboozled by such an idiot as you.
"Don't you know we've got the right Ida May with us at last Prudence's niece that has come here to visit for a while and play lady? Yes, you was fooled; we was bamboozled. That that other gal, Tunis, is a real bad one, I ain't no doubt. She pulled the wool over your eyes and made a monkey of most everybody, it seems. She "
"What do you think, sir? what do you think?" roared the Duke. "Those treacherous scoundrels, the Dutch, have appeared with a great Fleet of seventy men-of-war, besides fire-ships, off Sheerness, this morning at daybreak, and have taken the place, and Chatham lies open to them. We have been bamboozled and tricked.
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