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Kirk left his tune unfinished, and launched himself in the direction of Ken, who scooped him into his arms. "Do you know, Phil," Ken said, voicing at once the thought he had felt all the way up Winterbottom Road; "do you know, I think, after all, this is the very best thing we could have done." "What?" Phil asked, not being a mind-reader. "This," Ken said, sweeping his arm about the lamplit room.
You got no right to let on what you don't really feel. I won't stand for that a minute, ma'am. Now I'm I'm plumb sincere and truthful. No frills goes." There was the solemnity of conscious virtue in his voice as he went on. "I'm this much of a mind-reader, ma'am," said he, "that I know you don't care a snap of your finger for Dan Anderson. That's everdent. I ain't in on that side of the play.
A first-class parrot can repeat seventy different phrases; but an English philosopher offered a hundred pounds sterling to any "mind-reader" who should succeed in guessing the seven figures in the number of a hundred-pound bank-note, and It would be as safe to offer the same sum to any bird that could furnish evidence of attaching a definite meaning to any seven of his seventy sentences.
Hence the sordid vulgarity of the average mind-reader and humbugging spiritualist of the dark-chamber séance. Besides, the study of the super-normal mind tells us of the mind in health nature is shy in revealing her secrets." They passed the lake and were turning toward the east driveway. Suddenly she stopped and under the faint starlight regarded her companion earnestly.
There were exclamations of surprise and gratification from all present, save Rayel, who remained silent, while a faint smile stole over his face. "I knew they would find him out," said he. "I hear that you are a mind-reader, sir," said Mr. Murmurtot, again addressing my cousin. "And you are a detective, I believe, and not a reporter," said Rayel. "It is good that we understand each other." Mr.
Last winter, at Chaucer's dinner to Burns, I made a speech, which Boswell printed a week before it was delivered, with the words 'laughter' and 'uproarious applause' interspersed through it. It placed me in a false position." "How did he know what you were going to say?" queried Demosthenes. "Don't know," replied Johnson. "Kind of mind-reader, I fancy," he added, blushing a trifle.
"You're a sly one, you are," George gloated "always signin' your name 'P. Sybarite' and pretendin' your maiden monaker was 'Peter'! But now we know you! Take off them whiskers Perceval!" A really wise mind-reader would have called a policeman, then and there; for mayhem was the least of the crimes contemplated by P. Sybarite.
The young officer was a medicine-man, a mind-reader, and far and wide the Indians spoke of him in fear and reverence. It might be a good thing, said the canny Scot, to back him up and reap the benefit. "Just so long as I can keep him here in charge of the guard we can run things to suit ourselves, for no red-skin will dare buck against him."
He was determined to send the boy to England for his education." "He only said that he wouldn't have done it he loved the boy too well," he burst in, impatiently. "Well, of course, the young mother did not know that not being a mind-reader, she had no way of telling and besides, he threatened to take the child from her altogether.
She went back to the dining-room, where her daughter sat eating dinner, with a numbness in her limbs and a sense of dizziness in her brain, and dropping into a chair at the table gasped out: "Do you know what Captain Haney just said to me?" "Not being a mind-reader, I don't," replied the girl, calmly, though she was moved by her mother's white, awed face. "He wants you!"
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