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They instituted inquiries, found the young lady's family were all out of town, the Hamilton Terrace house closed; and it became pretty evident they had been hoaxed." He paused; but Toni did not speak. "The first thing they did was to make inquiries at the big pawnbrokers, and of course they knew in an hour or two that they had been done.
It bears the stamp of authenticity in every line; yet so often had I been hoaxed by the ingenious fancies displayed in that Magazine, that when this relation met my eye I did not believe it; but, from the moment that I perused it, I half formed the resolution of investigating these wonderful remains personally, if any such existed; for, in the immediate vicinity of the scene, as I supposed, I knew of more attractive metal than the dilapidated remains of mouldering suicides.
As soon as the members of the Board were alone Chairman Stone glanced about him, and remarked: "So, it appears, gentlemen, that, if we do not favor High School football, we shall be regarded as what are termed 'dead ones'!" The next morning's "Blade" contained a column and a half, written in Reporter Spencer's most picturesque vein. The headlines ran: "School Board Hoaxed.
"Poor Peter! The sole honour he brought from Shrewsbury was the reputation of being captain of the school in the art of practical joking. He even thought that the people of Cranford might be hoaxed. 'Hoaxing' is not a pretty word, my dear, and I hope you won't tell your father I used it, for I should not like him to think I was not choice in my language, after living with such a woman as Deborah.
Wiegand was there at the appointed hour, but was astonished to discover that he had been hoaxed. The perpetrators of the "rag" were some of his U. S. confreres. Von Wiegand for nearly two years has been the recipient of such marked and exclusive favours in Berlin that Mr. The gentleman appointed to crowd Mr. von Wiegand out of the limelight was a former clergyman named Dr.
I am the forger's only friend, and I ask him to come forward and make a clean breast of it, like the young men who hoaxed the Society for Psychical Research with a faked wraith, or phantasm of the living. "Let it fully now suffice, The gambol has been shown!"
With this slap the invisibility of Poinsinet disappeared, the gnomes and genii left him, and he settled down into common life again, and was hoaxed only by vulgar means.
Bolton brought in the coffee-pot, and Annie hesitated a moment, with her hand on it, before pouring out a cup. "I don't like it," she said. "I know you don't. But you can say that it wasn't Putney who hoaxed Mrs. Munger, but Dr. Morrell." "Oh, you didn't either of you hoax her." "Well, then, there's no harm done." "I'm not so sure." "And you won't give me any coffee?"
"You've been hoaxed, sentry," commented the officer of the day dryly. "Corporal, have your men of the guard bring the prisoner up to the guard tent. Sentry, if any more straw men attempt to cross your post, bring them down as well as you did this one. The straw men who got away from you made their way into camp, didn't they?" "Whoever escaped, sir, got into camp all right."
There might be other hoaxed lovers ... if she had one, why not have two or three or four ... and his kisses might have meant no more to her than the kisses of half-a-dozen other men. Well, he had learned his lesson! No more love for him.... He crossed the Queen's Bridge, and when he reached the station, he came upon Willie Logan, moodily gazing at the barriers which were not yet open.
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