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The mere fact that the five officers swore that Smilk was healthy and rugged no doubt went a long way toward convincing the jury that the poor fellow was a physical wreck and absolutely unable to defend himself on the night of the alleged burglary. Moreover, a skilled mind-reader would have discovered that Mr. Yollop had not made a good impression on the jury.
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.
"I see that I shall have to arrange this thing myself. Will Monday night suit you, Henry?" "As well as another," said I politely, concealing my feelings as a victim of feminine diplomacy. "You have told him who are going, haven't you?" said Mrs. Knapp to Mrs. Bowser. "Laws, no! I never thought but what he knew." "Oh!" exclaimed Mrs. Knapp. "What a gift as a mind-reader Mr. Wilton ought to have!
This was probably due to one of the last orders issued by our hero, who warned his men that, when the enemy crossed the river, to withhold their musketry fire until he was well within range, and then, "if he lands, attack him at the point of the bayonet with determined resolution." With clairvoyance that would have done credit to a mind-reader, Brock knew that attack was imminent.
"From everybody!" he said. "Are you a mind-reader?" "Why?" "How did you know I was thinking you were different from my cousin, Mildred Palmer?" "What makes you think I DID know it?" "Nonsense!" he said. "You knew what I was thinking and I knew you knew." "Yes," she said with cool humour. "How intimate that seems to make us all at once!"
"Uncle Jed," she said, "this is my Uncle Charlie. He's been away and he's come back and he's going to work here always and live in the bank. No, I mean he's going to work in the bank always and live No, I don't, but you know what I do mean, don't you, Uncle Jed?" Charles Phillips smiled. "If he does he must be a mind-reader, Babbie," he said.
And in this she was right MacNair stared because he was silently taking her measure, and his hat remained upon his head because he knew of no reason why it should not remain upon his head. Chloe was the first to speak, and in her voice was more than a trace of annoyance. "Well, Mr. Mind-Reader, have you figured me out why I am here, and " "No."
But a fellow's got to look out for number one. I'd let him have it soon as I seen him. Right off the reel." "Would you?" "Surest thing you know. He's a bad actor, that fellow is." "If I went to the marshal " Dud's eye held derision. "What good'd that do? Simp ain't gonna draw cards till after some one's been gunned. He don't claim to be no mind-reader, Simp don't."
West's letter, you would have had no sleep last night. As it is, knowing your granddaughter has fallen into safe hands, you can comfortably disclaim anxiety." "You seem to fancy yourself a mind-reader, my good sir," returned Mrs. MacDonald at her haughtiest, or what Barrie would have called her "snortiest." "Think what you like. It is nothing to me, and thinking costs naught.
Beverly had turned his back to the Plaza and was speaking in a low tone, with the serious face and far-away air of one who referred to a thing of the past. "Bev, you are a mind-reader, a character-sketcher " I began, but stopped short to stare into the Plaza beyond him. The young man had sprung to his feet and stood there with flashing eyes and hands clenched.
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