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Thus, occasionally evading all pushing and home queries, and sometimes, when hard pressed, feigning drowsiness, I passed the long and anxious day the fear of being overtaken ever mingling with the thoughts that some unlucky admission of mine might discover my real character to the courier, who, at any post station, might hand me over to the authorities.
I could not find Ben Greenway, and I asked one of the men about him, feigning that he owed me for some fruit, and the man looked at another man and laughed, and said that he had been sent for in a hurry, and had gone ashore in a boat." "I cannot believe that," said Kate; "he would not go away and leave me." Dickory could not believe it either, and could offer no explanation.
"Jist come in, Brady," said Traynor, as he dragged him along; "walk in, man alive; sure, and sich an honest man as you are needn't be afeard of lookin' his friends in the face! Ho! an' be me sowl, is it a spy we've got; and, I suppose, would be an informer' too, if he had heard anything to tell!" "What's the manin' of this, boys?" exclaimed the others, feigning ignorance.
Linton, suspecting something, followed; and when I attempted to call them, she pulled me back, slammed the door to, and locked it. 'Fair means! she said, in answer to her husband's look of angry surprise. 'If you have not courage to attack him, make an apology, or allow yourself to be beaten. It will correct you of feigning more valour than you possess.
On Theresa's recovery, in dread of a possible separation he proposed to fly with her to America, to the Alps, to "some unsuspected isle in the far seas;" and she suggested the idea of feigning death, like Juliet, and rising from the tomb. Neither expedient was called for.
We all made plenty of money. Emilia suggested Maraquito feigning to be an invalid, so as to make things safe. False coins were passed at the gambling-house. Maraquito came here as Mrs. Herne and had a house or rather lodgings at Hampstead. We came here three times a week, and while supposed to be playing whist, we were at the factory. Emilia kept guard.
She turned her magazine ostentatiously upside down, smiled vacantly at the pictures, and feigning to fall asleep, watched beneath her eyelashes the compassionate glances with which she was regarded, shaking the while with inward laughter!
In two words I will tell you, sir, the object of my mission, and you can then judge whether or not you will return as quickly as possible to Fort Royal to embark with us. 'I hear you, sir, said the chevalier, feigning a slight English accent, doubtless to better play his part.
According to the old sentence, "If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato." With this palatial air, there is, for the direct aim of several of his works, and running through the tenor of them all, a certain earnestness, which mounts, in the Republic, and in the Phaedo, to piety. He has been charged with feigning sickness at the time of the death of Socrates.
"He's too smart to believe in wishing, honey. Smarter than his old man, eh, Tim?" "I'll never be as smart as you, Dad." "That's my boy! But you don't kid me." Jerry turned to Phil and Clancey, feigning indignation. "You know what happened the other day?
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