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You just take me to whoever says you're not little Billie and I'll prove their lie before any court on earth. That reminds me; I have something for you. It won't help make good your claim, for they might say an impostor got it from me, but it's yours and you ought to have it." She mounted the rickety stairs to the loft, and in her absence Willa slowly put on her stocking and shoe once more.
Gordon remained silent during the whole of the interview. But when he was gone, and Gordon was asked what he thought of him, he replied by waving his hand and drawing it across his throat, which he explained signified in China that his head ought to be cut off as a humbugging impostor. Although buried, as it were, at Gravesend, Gordon could not be altogether forgotten.
I immediately dictated this reply: "Take first train East and come to me at Barton as quickly as possible. Hope to have news for you." I then jotted down on a scratch pad this memorandum: "The young woman representing herself as Mrs. Bashford and now established in my uncle's house is one or all of the following persons: 1. Uncle Bash's widow. 2. An impostor. 3.
In the meantime the farmer, who had left the room previous to this explanation, and who looked upon Reilly as an impostor or a spy, returned with a stout oaken cudgel, exclaiming, "Now, you damned desaver, I will give you a jacketful of sore bones for comin' to pry about here.
Sinner, this is the sin against the Holy Ghost. What sayst thou? Hast thou committed it? Nay, I know thou hast not; if thou wouldst be saved by Christ. Yea, it is impossible that thou shouldst have done it, if indeed thou wouldst be saved by him. No man can desire to be saved by him, whom he yet judgeth to be an impostor, a magician, a witch.
Victor Jones of Philadelphia. I'm no Lord. Here, gimme those clothes and let me out of this let's call it quits." The word "police" already dropped held him back. He was an impostor. If he were to declare the facts before Rochester returned, what might be the result? Whatever the result might be one thing was certain, it would be unpleasant.
"A week ago he was in England." "Have you not heard that he is an impostor?" "I only know, sir, that he is a very unfortunate man, and that you, who have so interested yourself against him, have only to show him leniency and kindness and you would be surprised at his gratitude. I carry the appeal of the Chevalier to you, desirous of seeing whether the trouble cannot be amicably arranged."
I fancied, I tried to fancy I was no impostor, as I was of the family I represented myself to be, by the mother's side; and. I wished to believe that my peace would easily be made when I avowed myself to be the man I really was.
"This woman," answered Cecilia, "cannot be an impostor, she carries marks but too evident and too dreadful in her countenance of the sufferings which she relates." "O," returned he, "when you know the town better you will soon see through tricks of this sort; a sick husband and five small children are complaints so stale now, that they serve no other purpose in the world but to make a joke."
A really accomplished impostor is the most wretched of geniuses; he is a Napoleon on a desert island. A man might surely, therefore, when he was certain that his credit was gone, take a certain pleasure in revealing the tricks of his unique trade, and gaining not indeed credit, but at least a kind of glory.
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