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And they pretended to hang buckets on all the trees near Mr. Bear's house. There were no maple trees about Cuffy's home only pine and hemlock and spruce but if you are just pretending to make maple-sugar any sort of tree will do. While they were playing Cuffy kept wishing for some real maple-sugar.
The voice of her Master seemed to speak in her heart as the wind whirled by the car and stirred the loose hair on her forehead. The voice that had been her guide through life was requiring her now to witness to these two whom she loved, as no other could do it, be they ever so wise; just because she loved them and loved Him, and was not pretending to be wise, only following.
"And therefore I do not see how any Persons pretending to Sobriety and Vertue, and especially to the pure and holy Religion of our Blessed Saviour, can, without great Guilt, and open Contradiction to his holy Profession, be present at such lewd and immodest Plays, much less frequent them, as too many do, who yet would take it very ill to be shut out of the Communion of Christians, as they would most certainly have been in the first and purest Ages of Christianity."
"Oh, you can get out of it cleverly, like all men; but you can't hoodwink me. You shouldn't have pretended to like Gertrude when you were really pulling a cord with Agatha. And she, too, pretending to flirt with Sir Charles as if he would care twopence for her!" Trefusis seemed N little disturbed. "I hope Miss Lindsay had no such but she could not." "Oh, couldn't she?
Pretending acquiescence in their proposition of waiting till the arrival of their Khan, I propose mounting and riding a few yards for their own edification while waiting; in their eagerness to see they readily fall into the trap, and the next minute sees me flying down the road with a swarm of bare-legged ryots in full chase after me, yelling for me to stop.
Pretending to be occupied with those about her she sat examining the look Fraulein had given her... she hates me.... Perhaps she did from the first.... She did from the first.... I shall have to go... and suddenly, lately, she has grown worse....
My poor father shed a flood of tears, and conjured me to tell him the cause of my disquiet; upon which, rather than confess the truth, I amused his concern by pretending that my lover was ill. The whole family having stayed by me till I was a little more composed, left me to the care of my maid, who put me into bed about six in the morning, but I enjoyed no rest.
To prevent hostilities on the part of Mary's son, James VI. of Scotland, or of the Catholic sovereigns on the Continent, Elizabeth, pretending to be displeased with her ministers for carrying out the sentence, ordered the arrest of Davison the secretary to the council, and had him punished by a fine of £10,000 and imprisonment in the Tower.
I meant to say that we might shut our aunt up in her own room, pretending she was not well, and was sleeping." "That's it," replied Laurent, "and that idiot Michaud would go straight into the room to see his old friend, notwithstanding. It would be a capital way to ruin us." He hesitated. He wanted to appear calm, and anxiety gave a tremor to his voice.
"I do believe it was the hen herself that frighted you!" he added. "She served you right, you thief!" "I didn't know there was any harm," said Tommy, pretending to sob. "Why didn't you bring me my share, then?" "'Cos I knowed you'd ha' made me give 'em back to the hen!" "And you didn't know there was any harm, you lying little brute!" "No, I didn't." "Now, look here, Tommy!
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