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She often said, 'Don't speak to me of suffering. She took great pleasure in a variety of disguises. Sometimes, in the picturesque costume of a peasant-girl, with coarse wooden shoes on her little feet, she would enter a town filled with Royalist troops, and converse gayly with the gendarmes who guarded the gates.
I may appear here under many disguises, it is necessary for both of us that you should always know and recognize me; but you must never betray your recognition; to you in the presence of others I must always be a stranger; your safety and my own demands it, but all will come out right in the end." "Never! Never! those men will kill you!"
We had not had any dinner, and after I had ordered a good meal we went up to a room where we took off our disguises and masks, after which we went to the garden. My lovely C C had nothing on but a bodice made of light silk and a skirt of the same description, but she was charming in that simple costume!
Anyways, it's better than keeping disguises kicking around for any one to find, and caching liquor under bushes. He had discovered all my secret. All how? The thought set me nearly crazy." "Did you question him?" The man's voice cut sharply into the momentary silence. Kate shook her head. "No. I couldn't. I don't know why, but I couldn't." She drew a deep breath.
The Purcels, knowing that they were looked upon by the people in a hostile spirit, and aware of the disguises which those secret confederacies, that are so peculiar to our unfortunate country, often take for treacherous and vindictive purposes, came to the resolution of putting every servant in the house, male and female, from off the premises.
The question stripped of all disguises and exaggerations on both sides, was simply whether the labor element of the vast territory on the Pacific should be Mongolian or American. Patriotic instinct, the American sentiment dominant on the borders and outposts of the Republic, all demanded that the Pacific coast should be preserved as a field for the American laborer.
Nevertheless, she was alive still, and as vast as ever though a course of strong waters had shattered her nerves considerably; even more so, than her real mother's grief at Julian's protracted absence. Never had he been heard of since he left, hard heart; though he might have guessed a mother's sorrow, and was not far away, and often lingered near the house in strange disguises.
Jackson-am examined a fierce dispute arises between two of the examiners Jackson disguises himself to attract respect irises himself to attract respect is detected in hazard of being sent to Bridewell he treats us at a Tavern carries us to a Night-house A troublesome adventure there we are committed to the Round-house carried before a Justice his behaviour
Moreover, the stranger had humbled her in the contest of repartee, which, as a true woman, had made her entertain an admiration for him, and this and his strange disguises and his unaccountable purchases had surrounded him with a mist of romantic mystery she fain would penetrate. Some little time before, it had been Miss Clarissa's misfortune, through sickness, to lose much of her hair.
Perhaps he had seen all along that she did care for him, that he had known it in some way unknown and forever unknowable to her; the way a man knows; and all her disguises had availed nothing against him. Then, if he had known, he had acted very deceitfully and very wrongfully, and nothing could excuse him unless there had been other signs that a girl would recognize, too.
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