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Yet here she was, debonnaire and fresh and perfectly appointed and ah, so terribly neat and spectacularly finessed!
"I am going to take you over the ground with me; show you Weatherbee's project, his drawn plans. But afterwards, if you outbid me " "You need not be afraid of that," she interrupted quickly. "I you must know" she paused, her lashes drooped "I am not very rich," she finessed. Tisdale laughed outright.
Didn't you hear ?" Eyes wondering, she moved her head slowly from side to side. "Hear what?" "I fancied that you had waited a moment on the veranda," he finessed. "Oh, I was quite too frightened...." He took this for a complete denial. Better and better!
I suppose you are too grand a person to consider my trouble in this matter; the pains I took to get Lenoble over to England; the way I made the most of my gout even, in order to have you about me; the way I finessed and diplomatized to bring this affair to a successful issue.
Mrs Killer looked with all her eyes, for she wanted to know all about this pretty girl who dropped so unexpectedly into Melbourne society, so she determined to question Bellthorp when she got him alone. To this end she finessed. 'Oh! there's that lovely valse, she said, as the band struck up 'One summer's night in Munich'. 'If you are not engaged, Mr Bellthorp, we must have a turn.
Yet here she was, debonnaire and fresh and perfectly appointed and ah, so terribly neat and spectacularly finessed!
Do not think you can educate your workmen, or that the demand for perfection will increase the supply: educated imbecility and finessed foolishness are the worst of all imbecilities and foolishnesses; and there is no free-trade measure, which will ever lower the price of brains, there is no California of common sense.
"Haven't we cheated all through?" she inquired, with a one-sided smile. "By no means. We have finessed, that's all. Just at present I feel impelled to well, give you a hint under the table." "Why?" "Miss Beatrice, more or less I stand in the position of a skilled and rich player who has tempted a less wealthy partner into a doubtful game.
Rogers did not often lead even from a strong suit unless it contained at least one honour. The Commandant risked it and finessed his knave. Miss Gabriel had been waiting, watching him intently. Her mouth shut almost with a snap of triumph as she put down the queen. It was, as it happened, the one heart in her hand.
"I can well believe it," I said "sheer weakness." "Well," he said, "on the sixth round the lead came to me. Now, what should I have done? Finessed for the ace, or led straight into my opponent " "You want my advice," I said, "and you shall have it, openly and fairly.
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