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Updated: June 16, 2025
It read: ROBERT RUSSELL KANSAS CITY COMET "Ye'r a purty fresh kid," sneered Jellup. "At your service, Mr. Officer." Jellup had already received an explanation of the whole affair and was aching to exercise his authority. "Ye'r an impostor," he began, "and ef ye hadn't been caught, ye'd have taken money on false pretenses. I was onto ye."
She knew she did not understand him thoroughly "we've been so differently brought up." But she felt that the kind of life that pleased her and dazzled him must be the kind he really wished to lead and would see he wished to lead, once he extricated himself, with her adroit assistance, from the kind of life to which his vociferous pretenses had committed him.
You are able to help a measure along in many ways, if you choose. I want to ask you to work for the bill as well as vote for it." "It takes so much of one's time, Miss Hawkins and time is money, you know." "Yes, I know it is especially in Congress. Now there is no use in you and I dealing in pretenses and going at matters in round-about ways. We know each other disguises are nonsense.
However it may have been with others, Agrippina herself was not deceived by the false pretenses which Nero offered in explanation of his brother's death. She understood the case too well, and the event filled her mind with a tumult of conflicting emotions.
The waster disappeared. Bean heard the flapper's voice calling cheerily to him from above stairs. A footman disapprovingly ushered him to the midst of an immense drawing-room of most ponderous grandeur, and left him to perish. He sat on the edge of a chair and tried to clear his mind about this enormity he was going to commit. False pretenses! Nothing less. He was not a king at all.
The right of suffrage has often been assumed and exercised by aliens under pretenses of naturalization, which they have disavowed when drafted into the military service. I submit the expediency of such an amendment of the law as will make the fact of voting an estoppel against any plea of exemption from military service or other civil obligation on the ground of alienage.
It presents the question whether discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control the administration according to the organic law in any case, can always, upon the pretenses made in this case, or any other pretenses, or arbitrarily without any pretense, break up their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth.
He liked the ladylike, "nice" pretenses, of women of the right sort liked them when they fooled him, liked them when they only half fooled him. Presently he knocked on the door of the little library, opened it when permission came in Cyrilla's voice. She was reading the evening paper he did not see the glasses she hastily thrust into a drawer.
A plain breakfast in those vigorous times was unvarying beefsteak, ham or bacon to give it a savor, eggs, fried potatoes, hot biscuits, coffee. It was the same as dinner, which came on the stroke of twelve, and none of your six-o'clock pretenses about that meal, except there was no pie; identical with supper, save for the boiled potatoes and rice pudding.
He was thinking that already Zoraida suspected him of being too warmly interested; he did not know but that Rios was here now on Zoraida's errand, making pretenses the while he sought to ferret out real emotions. And so for Zoraida's sake should the words be carried to her, he cried as though in high amusement: "Love? What are you thinking of, man?" He saw that he had puzzled Rios.
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