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Updated: June 17, 2025
"What is known as fashionable social life has become an almost pitiful sham, and you can scarcely conceive the relief it is to meet with one utterly uncontaminated by its miserable deceits, its shallow make-believes. It is no wonder you shock the nerves of such people; the deed is easily accomplished." "But I do not mean to." And she looked at him gravely, striving to make him comprehend.
"The d l it has!" said the man who had addressed him. "Really, Captain, I beg your pardon!" "Never mind that!" said the Captain. "You will probably hit the right man next time, and the quicker you shame the make-believes into doing something or pulling off their uniforms, the better. McClellan wants us all " "McClellan's the boy!" broke out a voice.
I felt amused and happy for a few minutes and also deserted. It's a very good thing for a woman's conceit to find out how many of her lovers are just make-believes. I may have needed Tom's deflection. Anyway, I don't know when I ever was so glad to see anybody as I was when Mrs. Johnson came in the front door.
Marian felt suddenly very poverty-stricken; there were no Dollies or Dicks for her to buy make-believes for. She sighingly mentioned the fact to Patty. "Oh, that doesn't make any difference," said Patty cheerfully; "you can buy for some one else. I think I'll get you that Roman sash." "Oh, lovely, and I'll get you the blue one. Would you like it?" "I'd love it."
"I am not sitting for my picture to this great, grim artist friend of yours, who first sticks a knife into me, and then tells me to look pleasant that he may photograph me for his gallery of fools! I am tired of shams and make-believes. Life is a hideous mockery, and I say plainly that I loathe and abhor it!" "Tush, tush, whatever else you do or do not do, keep sweet, David!
The constitutions were not badly framed, except as they, for the most part, continued the exclusive clauses. The general legislation was various in its character. There were some excellent features, above all the institution in every State of a genuine public school system, where before there had been only makeshifts or make-believes.
I have grown fond of makeshifts and make-believes and hedging, bluffing, stalling, jumping mental hurdles it's fun it keeps you alive and never weighing more than a hundred and ten pounds." Trudy rose to go. She was a chic little vixen in a fantastic costume of black velvet with a jacket of blush pink.
"There was great lamentation among the bairns this morning when I said something about Miss Jean maybe leaving us; but they took great comfort from the recollection that they had learned to write so well that they might send real post letters to her not mere make-believes and she promised to answer them.
If we, for instance, go into the midst of a savage country, we know that there is the chance of our meeting a savage. But to the young child it is quite as possible to meet a Red Indian coming round the bend of the brook at the bottom of the orchard, as it is to meet him in his own wigwam. The child is an adept at make-believe, but his make-believes are, as a rule, practical and serious.
"How do you know?" I retorted, for I was somewhat taken with the actresses, and thought to avenge them by bringing her down a peg or two. "Have you seen so much of London fine ladies?" "No, poor me!" she said sorrowfully, without a bit of anger, so that I was softened in a trice. "But the ladies of New York, even, are no such tawdry make-believes as this.
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