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"I haven't admitted yet that I believe my uncle to be a a murderer," Miss Graham quietly reminded him. "A strong word," said Average Jones smiling. "The law would hardly support your view. Now, Miss Graham, would it grieve you very much if Peter Paul were to die?" "I won't have him put to death," said she quickly. "That would be, cheating my grandmother's intentions." "I supposed you wouldn't.
Charlie Blount's amazement was perfectly natural, The German and American did dislike each other most intensely. Neither of them had lived so long on Mayou as Blount, but each was trying hard to work the other man off the island by accusing him to the natives of cheating them.
She advised them all to marry some good, true man and make a home for him. And surely none of them could have believed the life to be a joyous one after studying these sorrowful portraits of Vida Sommers. "That's my little actress friend," said Ma Pettengill. "Doesn't she cry something grand!" "You've been cheating me," I answered. "I never knew you had a little actress friend.
First you declare that Fuller was drunk, and then that he was able to detect clever players at cheating. Your argument contradicts itself and is plainly absurd." "Anyhow, I mean to urge it," Dick said doggedly. "Well," said Kenwardine with a steady look, "I've no doubt you see what this implies. You charge me with a plot to intoxicate your friend and take a mean advantage of his condition."
Gull is now the name of a sea-bird, but in Early English it was used to describe any young bird, and from the idea that it is easy to deceive such youngsters came the use of the word to describe foolish people. Another name of a bird used with almost the opposite meaning is rook. This name is given to people who are constantly cheating others, especially at card games.
For a tribe there is most foolish among men, of such as scorn the things of home, and gaze on things that are afar off, and chase a cheating prey with hopes that shall never be fulfilled. Of such sort was the frenzied strong desire fair-robed Koronis harboured in her heart, for she lay in the couch of a stranger that was come from Arcady.
But Providence had disappointed them in the success of their wicked design for Cullen having been known, or at least suspected of doing such a thing before, those with whom they had insured at London, instead of their paying the money, caused him to be seized and brought to a trial, which demolished all their schemes for cheating insurance offices.
Lying, and cheating, and perjuring, and murdering it's nothing better nor murder, that of giving up the younker that never did harm to me or mine, to the Piankeshaws, for they'll burn him, they will, d n 'em! there's no two ways about it. There's what I've done for you; and if you were to give me had the plunder, I reckon 'twould do no more than indamnify me for my rascality.
The master, Mr Paton's successor, thought it odd that Wilton could do his verses so much better than any of his other work, but he could not detect the cheating, and Wilton always assured him that the verses were entirely his own composition.
It wasn't long before he began to look down on his neighbors for being so honest that they didn't suspect other people of being dishonest, and for being so easily cheated. "Now one bad habit almost always leads to another. From cheating, Mr. Snake just naturally slipped to stealing. Yes, Sir, he became a thief. Of course that made trouble right away, but still no one suspected Mr. Snake.