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Bude looked round wildly. His large, fish-like mouth twitched, and he made a few feeble gestures with his hands. "It was only perhaps an idea of mine, sir," he stammered, "just a sort of idea ... I dare say I was mistaken. My hearing ain't what it was, sir...." "Don't you try to hoodwink me," said Manderton, with sudden ferocity, knitting his brows and frowning at the unfortunate butler.
For good and sufficient reasons, we do not think of this Queen at prayer as readily as we figure her taking part in affairs of state, plotting for the destruction of her enemies and trying to hoodwink the Huguenots and Leaguers in turn. "And yet," as Walter reminds us, "Catherine was extremely devout, with all her deviltry."
But he never dreamt that any of them could hoodwink him; so he put Peggy once more through the whole story, made her describe all her actions on the day of the wedding, where she stood, where the witness stood, what the parson said, what her husband said. He went through the whole thing, and could see no flaw in it.
But you can't hoodwink Nature that way, and not long afore the trees had swallowed her up Millicent felt nameless dread pulling at her heart and all her senses tingling with terror. She kept her mind on her mother, however, and sped on with her face set before her, though a thousand instincts cried to her to look behind for the nameless things that might be following after.
"That was the meaning of all his politeness about the letters he expected to hoodwink us, did he? the rogue!" exclaimed Sommers. "But though we do not catch him, the frigate will; there is no fear of that!" We pulled on after the schooner some time longer, but Sommers at length saw that the chase was perfectly hopeless.
"And you did see the lovely lady who was talking to me?" "I did." "And what was your conclusion?" "My conclusion was and is that she is one of the most subtle deceivers that ever set out to hoodwink a good man, for she succeeded."
She was in earnest now, terribly so, but still Faith drew back, though her compassionate face belied her hesitating words. "Go to Adam; who wiser or more just than he?" "I cannot. He, as well as Geoffrey, loves me too well to decide for me. You stand between them, wise as the one, gentle as the other, and you do not care for me enough to let affection hoodwink reason.
Nature calls to the father to nurture his children, to cherish their affection, to make them useful members of society; superstition advises him to rear them in fear of its systems, to hoodwink them, to make them superstitious, which renders them incapable of actually serving society, but extremely well calculated to disturb its repose.
The land ring, of course, knew this, and by their corrupt influence had so maneuvered to hoodwink the General Land Office that the valley had been withdrawn from entry. When they had protected themselves from prospective settlers, it would be safe for them to develop their water away up the valley.
If Ruskin did not think it beautiful, that was his affair; but when Ruskin went one step further and accused the painter of trying to hoodwink the world for a matter of guineas, attacking the man's motives, he exceeded the legitimate limits of criticism, and his public rebuke was deserved.
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