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After all those torments of doubt and perplexity which he had undergone during the last three months, the simple fact of Marian's safety seemed too good a thing to be true. He was tortured by a vague sense of the unreality of this relief that had come so suddenly to put an end to all perplexities. "I feel as if I were the victim of some hoax, some miserable delusion," he said to himself.
"Do not count!" cry I, pettishly; "what is the use? not all the counting in the world will make him any younger." "It is not true!" cries Bobby, with boisterous skepticism, jumping up from his seat, and making a plunge at me; "it is a hoax! she has been taking us all in! Really, Nancy, for a beginner, you did not do it badly!"
Almost all electricians the men who were supposed to know pronounced the telephone an impossible thing; and those who did not openly declare it to be a hoax, believed that Bell had stumbled upon some freakish use of electricity, which could never be of any practical value. Even though he came late in the succession of inventors, Bell had to run the gantlet of scoffing and adversity.
The following rather inscrutable doggerel was found scrawled on a piece of paper: When Death doth reap And Chuff is sickled, He will not keep: He was never pickled. For Bishop Chuff This is ill cheer: That Time will force him To the bier. And when he stands On his last legs Then Death will drain him To the dregs. So when Chuff croaks Bury him on a high hill For he's a hoax Et praeterea nihil!
Nay, now he began to suspect a hoax, and actually complimented himself on his shrewdness in having suspected and outmanoeuvred his mystifiers. So very idle a thing is a boy's mind! Armed with these reflections, he advanced boldly from his corner; but he had not taken above a couple of steps before a hand was laid upon his arm.
Could the offer refer to some other picture? for he knew Baunton and Lutterworth as being most reputable among London picture-dealers; and the idea of the letter being a hoax was precluded by the headed paper and general style of the communication. He glanced at the picture.
The backs of those sheets, with the stamps and postmarks and the address to me, will be good proof that it is not a hoax. "Folks don't put much stock in bottles washed up by the sea these days, and we'll have to offer a reward for having it forwarded, say to my son, and then he'll be sure. I guess he'd give a hundred dollars to know what become of his old daddy and the girl, too. Put that in, Mr.
If he should present it at all, it would be to invoke the authority of the house to cause the author of it to be prosecuted for the forgery, if there were competent judicial tribunals, and he could obtain evidence to prove the fact. He did not consider a forgery committed to deter a member of Congress from the discharge of his duty as a hoax. Niles' Weekly Register, N. S., vol.
Cecilia found that she had hit the right nail, as the saying is; and she brought forward so many arguments to prove that she thought it was a hoax to frighten them, and that the gentleman above was a man of consequence, that her aunt began to listen to reason, and at last consented to join the dinner party. Mrs.
I can't get her out of my thoughts; I am irrational in all I do; an absolute failure in the office." "It is more than a hoax, in my opinion. Wait till Sandford returns and finds his silver gone!" Hillard started. "And his gold-plate," continued Merrihew, pleased with the idea. "My boy, that's what it is; the best dodge I ever heard of. But how did they get into the house, she and her maid?
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