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We can pretend that we had to go on an errand, or for some fishing bait or something of the sort. We mustn't let them know we have been looking for them." It was after midnight when the boys turned in. They, too, went sound asleep directly they rolled up in their blankets in their little tent.
"Much better than to wait for their blood-freezing attack. We must pretend like mad. Like that game of cards where you pretend you've got aces when you haven't. Fluffing they call it, I think. Now then. Whoop!"
She will pretend she doesn't understand him and will make him explain the construction of a sentence over and over again, or she will argue with him about a point until he loses his temper completely.
And the power to make them tolerate him, if not receive him as a fellow, the knowledge of them and their plans that they had unwittingly given him, was his. And Dorothy, was waiting.... He swung round and without attempting to muffle his footfalls strode toward the companionway. He must pretend he had just come aboard.
"I like a good dinner all the same," said Lord Dumbello. "Oh, yes, of course of course. I am by no means one of those who would pretend to preach that our tastes have not been given to us for our enjoyment. Why should things be nice if we are not to like them?" "A man who can really give a good dinner has learned a great deal," said Lord Dumbello, with unusual animation. "An immense deal.
This statement was that the claims of the religions opposed to Christianity did not rest upon miracles; that there was, at any rate, no real testimony to any except Christian miracles; and that, as a rule, other religions did not pretend to exhibit any.
I know nothing more indicative of the muddled sentiment of the time than that any number of men should be found to pretend that they regard you in any other light. But privately, personally, it's another affair. In the realm of family life and the domestic affections " At this Verena broke in, with a nervous laugh, "Don't say that; it's only a phrase!"
"I am not foolish enough to pretend that I do not understand. We are going to part now, and you will forget." "Is it then so easy for you?" "I need not confess, only I see how utterly foolish all this is. The conditions bringing us together in a few hours of intimacy have been romantic, and, perhaps, it is not strange that you should feel an interest in me.
Untold gold could never pay for what my pride has suffered in having her, and if she hadn't been so useful I couldn't have done it, I don't pretend that I could. She's an offence to the eye. 'Not any longer, said Mary proudly.
Oh I've thought it all out!" Julia declared. And then with a strange face of anguish resting on his own: "Before it's too late before it's too late!" "Too late for what?" "For you to be free for you to be free. And for me for me to be free too. You hate everything I like!" she flashed out. "Don't pretend, don't pretend!" she went on as a sound of protest broke from him.
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