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If you cared for the artistic you could go through a salon like the Piper of Hamelin with a queue of gentlemen reaching back into the corridors of infinity. Instead of which you wear mannish clothes, do your hair in a Bath-bun, and permit men the privilege of equality. Oh, la, la! A man is no longer useful when one ceases to mystify him."
A set of Miss Alcott's books stood first, and, taking out the well-thumbed copy of "Little Men," she shook it gently, fluttering the leaves, and turning it upside down. But the volume held nothing except a four-leaf clover, which Lloyd had left there to mark the place one summer day. Betty turned away, as puzzled as any of the others whom she had helped to mystify.
Of course if you were in any danger or anything, but why need you care? You needn't care a hang for them. We shall have a laugh at them afterwards, and if I were in your place I'd mystify them more than ever. How ashamed they'll be afterwards! Hang them! We can thrash them afterwards, but let's laugh at them now!" "To be sure," answered Raskolnikov.
"As I said, it's a desperate chance, but it may do the trick!" Not to mystify you, when there is no need for it, I will say that the scheme Dick had hit upon was simple enough.
"I shall take good care not to do so," said John, smiling; "on the contrary, I shall try to keep Conrad as long as possible in my service, for I know him, and shall be able to mystify him.
These panics have left the country disturbed and embarrassed, by armies of unemployed men. "In the same line of tactics, these competitive leaders, have endeavored to confuse the question, and to mystify the people, by raising the cry of over-production! The inexorable law of supply and demand!
But he was powerless, helpless. A wild idea of sacrificing his loyalty to his paper by warning Gibson of the impending exposure of his perfidy so that he might renounce "Gink" Cummings and be worthy of Consuello's love flashed in and out of his brain. His silence seemed to mystify her. When she spoke it was as though she might have a vague premonition of his confused thoughts.
Here is a memorandum and a plan describing how they are to be applied. I have taken them from the Count's escritoire. And now, once more I must leave to your ingenuity how to mystify the people at the Dragon Volant. Be sure you try the keys first, to see that the locks turn freely. I will have my jewels ready.
'Countess Narona, Francis resumed, 'if your object in claiming my acquaintance is to mystify me, you have come to the wrong man. Speak plainly, or permit me to wish you good evening. 'If your object is to keep Miss Lockwood's arrival in Venice a secret, she retorted, 'speak plainly, Mr. Westwick, on your side, and say so. Her intention was evidently to irritate him; and she succeeded.
Clifton was down already, and was standing in front of stove. Being an observing young man he at once noticed Dick's watch-chain. "Halloa, Hunter!" said he; "I didn't know you had a watch." "I didn't know it myself till last night," said Dick. "Where did you get it?" "It came from Ball & Black's," said our hero, willing to mystify him. "That's a nice chain, solid gold, eh?"
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