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The Dey of Algiers was believed to have accumulated a treasure of fifteen millions sterling, and Buonaparte had actually duped him into a treaty, by which the French were to be permitted to erect a fort on the very spot where the ancient Hippo stood, the choice between which and the Hellespont, as the site of New Rome, is said to have perplexed the judgment of Constantine.
These words were not uttered arrogantly, but in a tone of the most mournful dejection. Glyndon was enraged, confounded, and yet awed. However, he had a brave English heart within his breast, and he recovered himself quickly. "Signor," said he, calmly, "I am not to be duped by these solemn phrases and these mystical sympathies.
He was furious at the idea of having been duped by his accomplice, by the instigator of the crime he had committed, and for which he would probably never have received the promised reward. "Ah, the brigand!" he exclaimed. "And I, who was very near not denouncing him at all!" A slight smile passed over the lawyer's face. His end had been attained.
'If being duped were an element of bliss, I should say certainly not happier, but I doubt the blissful ignorance of your great moralist. I incline to believe that the better you play any game life amongst the rest the higher the pleasure it yields. I can afford to marry, without believing my husband to be a paragon could you do as much?
When I called upon a money loaner he laughed and said he wouldn't give me one dollar for such a note, as he wouldn't care to buy a lawsuit. He said when the note came due it would be easier for the maker of it to prove the worthlessness of the patent than it would for him to prove it was valuable. I saw the point, and realized that I had been duped.
The object of the King of Naples was to take advantage of the situation of Europe, and he was duped by the promises held out to him as the reward of his treason.
If it had not been nature that taught her the practice of them in extremity, the sagacious dowagers would have seen brazenness rather than innocence or an excuseable indiscretion in the part she was performing. They are not lightly duped by one of their sex. Few tasks are more difficult than for a young woman under a cloud to hoodwink old women of the world.
"So they are," said Franscisco, "but you said so yesterday, when they were not; and he that was duped then, is not ready to believe you to-day. How does he know that you deserve it better?" "He might have looked at the fish," repeated Piedro; "they are fresh to- day. I am sure he need not have been afraid."
"Because her ladyship would rather believe me than you, Madam," rejoined Lord Roos. "But she is not duped." "Heaven forgive him!" exclaimed Diego, aside. "And supposing it were Gillian, how would the case be mended, as far as you are concerned, Elizabeth?" said Lady Lake. "Are you not as much injured by one as by the other?"
Oh, what a farce! What a delusion! but the ministers having got this hero on their side, the measure passes, and the people are duped and deceived. As I proceed in my history, I shall be able to shew to the public how necessary these shoy-hoys are to the ministers, and how often they have successfully played them off against the people. So it was in this case.
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