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"Caitiff!" exclaimed the merchant; "I'll have thy old vagabond bones in the Fleet for daring so to cheat his Grace's lieges." "If you can prove a cheat against me I will readily abye it, Sir," returned the beggar. "Palming a beggar's brat off for a noble dame." "So please you, Sir," interrupted the beggar, "keep truth with you. What did the child or I ever profess, save what we were?
But the thing came to no definite head till that jesuit-contrived device for cutting out the protestant heirs to the crown was brought to maturity, by palming a man-child upon the nation as the lawful son of the Tyrant and his papistical wife.
"Once in a while you'll run against a straight game, but not often." "But you showed us the jack every time before you throwed them!" puzzled Johnny Simms. "Sleight of hand," explained Newmark. "The simplest kind of palming." "Well, Charlie," said big Tim, "looks to me as if you had just about as much chance as a snowball in hell." "Where'd you get onto doing all that, Newmark?" inquired North.
We have had some imitation ideal statesmen who have been more or less successful in palming off their pinchbeck wares for the real; but looking backward over the history of the country we shall find the greatest among our public men measuring greatness by real and useful service to have been while they lived least regarded as idealists; for they were men of flesh and blood, who amid the rush of events and the calls to duty could not stop to paint pictures, to consider sensibilities, to put forth the deft hand where life and death hung upon the stroke of a bludgeon or the swinging of a club.
This personage is usually a fellow of some small knowledge of reading and writing, who, by overhearing the daily clinical lectures of the doctor, contrives to pick up a smattering of medical terms, which he loses no opportunity of palming off upon his messmates below as sublime wisdom sucked in at Alma Mater.
As in the last case, the left hand must be closed the moment the right hand touches it; and the right must thenceforth be held with the thumb bent slightly inward toward the palm, so that the coin may be shielded from the view of the spectators. This is an especially quick mode of palming, and if properly executed the illusion is perfect. Pass 3.
He had been palming himself off on the youngsters as an unfortunate, out of work, and they had been helping him. An inspection of his coat label and comparison of his face with a police alarm picture which the detective had, enabled him to make the identification.
But he got his eye on the plate a couple of pews ahead and it was full of coppers and chicken feed, and he did the palming act with the bill slicker than a faro dealer and whispered to me to change a quarter for him." "And did you?" asked the Flopper anxiously. "Oh, wake up, Flopper!" grinned Madison; then, suddenly: "Hullo! Who's that?"
He had become a member of a gang of ingenious rascals, who lived by imitating the less known gems of the old masters, and palming them off on the credulous public and wealthy collectors as genuine. The impostures were very cleverly manipulated, and quite a little system was instituted to bring them to perfection. Mr.
"I hope you'll pardon me, Miss Dodge," Del Mar deprecated, as the valet retreated toward the door to the kitchen and pantry. "But, you see, I have to be housekeeper here, too, it seems." Actually, though he was talking to us, it was in a way that enabled him by palming something in his hand, I fancied, to look at it. It was, though I did not know it, the hastily scrawled warning of the valet.
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