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He got his shotgun and blazed away at the supposed snake, thereby ruining a blanket, two sheets, and filling the mattress with shot. When he found out how he had been hoaxed he was the most foolish looking man to be imagined. "You just wait, Master Tom, I'll get square," he said. "Who said I put a snake in your bed?" demanded Tom. "I never did such a thing in my life."
The curate looked a trifle disturbed. He feared that something unpleasant had happened, and that his assistance might be required before breakfast. "It is going to be a warm day," he said politely, and stooped for the newspaper, as a delicate hint. "Where does ?" began Gissing, quivering; but at that moment, looking round, he saw that it had hoaxed him again.
"Come, come, none of your gammon; straddle the rail, Ephraim." The rail was brought and Barnum was about to be placed on it, when the truth flashed upon him. "Gentlemen," he exclaimed, "I am not Avery; I despise that villain as much as you can; my name is Barnum; I belong to the circus which arrived here last night, and I am sure Old Turner, my partner, has hoaxed you with this ridiculous story."
Miller, you are a friend of Johnnie's ... I have often heard him speak highly of you; can't you dissuade him from having this interview printed ... no matter if you have been sent by your paper all the way down here for it?" Jerome liked what Hildreth had said, admired her for her common sense. He offered to return to the city, and risk his job by stating that he had been hoaxed.
But he could tell me nothing, and evidently thought I had been hoaxed. In a small case by itself was a beautiful jewelled cross, which attracted D'Arcy's attention very much. 'This is not much in your line, he said to Jamrach.'This is European. 'It came to me from Morocco, said Jamrach, 'and it was no doubt taken by a Morocco pirate from some Venetian captive.
Strange to say, she had now lost all fear of the company of masked figures in whose midst she stood. It had begun to enforce itself upon her that she had been hoaxed into visiting an empty house by those who had taken advantage of the masquerade to carry out their plan without undue notice to themselves. She was now certain that she was being hazed by students.
Every search was made, but no whip was to be found. I was not to be hoaxed in this manner, so I persisted in having either my emblem of office returned, or its full value paid to me. The nawab asked what it cost. I said five gold mohurs; and, after some demur, and a good deal of parleying, I pocketed that sum, and we parted, to my perfect satisfaction. We marched the following day.
How this affair ended I know not, whether some new lie was coined to account for his release, or whether he was simply told that he had been hoaxed: it mattered little; for the little man was quite as ready to be hoaxed the next day.
"Was there ever such a confounded take-in?" "Well, I really don't know," said Mr. Chillingworth; "but it seems to me that he must have gone out of that door that was behind him: I begin, do you know, admiral, to wish " "What?" "That we had never come here at all; and I think the sooner we get out of it the better." "Yes; but I am not going to be hoaxed and humbugged in this way.
If his wife had been a dull woman, if she had been a woman without ambitions of her own, if she could have been hoaxed into thinking him the equal of his associates, it would have been easier; but Nathan was aware that Susan Hornby knew to the finest detail the nature of his failure as well as she understood and loved the best in him.
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