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She had never, she remembered, shown this particular sonnet to Nicoletta. What would Nicoletta have said? Pooh, what nonsense it was, what arrant nonsense in a man who could carry a sword, if he chose, and kill his enemies, or, better still, with his head outwit them that he should turn to pens and ink and to fogging a poor girl! So Selvaggia, not so Ugolino.
No doubt she is no longer pretty enough for older men, so she has to set her cap at young ones, who are flattered by her attention. I certainly thought Alymer had more sense but there one never knows, and these women are very clever, I believe." "D d I mean extraordinarily clever; but we can be clever too, and I dare say we can contrive to outwit her."
"It will be great fun to outwit the Spaniards." "Yes, but we must mind that they don't outwit us, Paolo, which is quite as likely. Now let us talk of our disguises again. I think you had better go and buy them. I would rather get old ones than new.
Platt and of the corporations affected found they could do no better, they assented to this proposition. Efforts were tentatively made to outwit me, by inserting amendments that would nullify the effect of the law, or by withdrawing the law when the Legislature convened; which would at once have deprived me of the whip hand.
He creeps up, accordingly, looking on either side, his caution increasing as he approaches his prey. The hunter, therefore, to outwit him, seeks his trail in the direction in which he has retreated, and conceals himself near it, but at some distance from the carcass.
"And is the government no one?" asked his brother. "Well, it's all right to outwit the Austrians," muttered Aaron. "I don't agree with you," was all Manasseh could say. "If I am ordered to march I shall obey. My poor lads are obliged to exchange the pick for the rifle, and shall I, their master, shirk my duty?" "Manasseh is right," declared Anna.
I say, young gentleman, may Providence bless your undertaking, which is altogether for good; and, remember, that to outwit the knaves it is lawful to practise things that may not be naturally the gift of a white-skin."
I therefore adopted such measures with the police as tended to promote his elevation to the First Magistracy. He soon showed himself ungrateful, and instead of giving me all his confidence he tried to outwit me. He put into the hands of a number of persons various matters of police which were worse than useless.
We signed the papers to-day!" "The papers for what?" she demanded. "For that useless bit of land on the other side of the fork," he responded. "Dermott," she said, "you play fair, don't you? You wouldn't take advantage of any one?" "Wouldn't I?" he said. "If it were to help you, I'd outwit the deil himself, Lady Katrine." In the following fortnight Francis and Katrine met but three times.
He had been prostrated with the fever for nearly a month, and at this time his life was despaired of. This was not thought to be any great misfortune to him by the others, who administered consolation in a style worthy of the best of Job's friends. They reasoned, "Now, if you get well, you will only be hung. You had better try to die yourself, and thus you will outwit them."
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