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Updated: June 16, 2025
That chief, Red Feather he has a daughter, hasn't he?" "No; him say no girl, no boy." She spoke with confidence. "I see. And your father's dead too, eh?" Evidently Red Feather had thoroughly convinced her of the truth of these pretenses. "Both mother, father. Nobody but me." She knelt down at his side, her face troubled. "If I had just one!" "Can you remember either of them?"
"With what money did you repay to me the loan that your son obtained by false pretenses?" he demanded. "I? What? I repaid the loan. I have the receipt. That is enough." "On the receipt stands written the number of the bank-note. I have kept the bank-note. It was stolen from the Princess Yasmini. Do you wish to go to jail? Then open that cellar door!" "Sahib, I never stole the note!" wept Chamu.
Another privilege that they have who have Jesus Christ to be their Advocate is this, he is such an one that will not, by bribes, by flattery, nor fair pretenses, be turned aside from pursuing of his client's business. This was the fault of lawyers in old time, that they would wrest judgment for a bribe.
He did not get to town at the appointed time, and he was arrested and carried before a justice of the peace, who found him guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses. No time whatever was given to the Negro to get witnesses or a lawyer, or to get money with which to pay his fine and the costs of court.
Although our expedition, cooperating with an invigorated administration of the government of the island of Cuba, and with the corresponding active exertions of a British naval force in the same seas, have almost entirely destroyed the unlicensed piracies from that island, the success of our exertions has not been equally effectual to suppress the same crime, under other pretenses and colors, in the neighboring island of Porto Rico.
"Because," said she evenly, "I will not meet people under false pretenses." "What rot!" "I will not do it," replied she in the same quiet way. He assumed that she meant only one of the false pretenses the one that seemed the least to her.
If he dissembles, he often misses his mark by exaggeration, and one can truly say that he has deceived his opponents more frequently by speaking the truth than by making false pretenses. Behind his blustering behavior you can often spy the merry wag. To his opponents he can be provoking, malicious, even spiteful, but he is never false!
They had plundered right and left, but withal had made no great pretenses. The fortune held by the Astors, so the facts indubitably show, represents a succession of piracies and exploitation.
"That was bad enough," he went on, "but I'm no fool; I know the world, an' I could forgive you a good deal; but hang it, I never could forgive you bein' a professional gambler a man that lives by deceit an' trickery an' false pretenses. Lookin' back now, it strikes me as bein' mighty curious how you got the best o' Piker's deals too. Was Piker or Denton, or whatever his name is, a gambler too?"
"Yes," she said quietly. Alban returned to the letter. "In the third place, I have good reason to believe that you entered Miss Ladd's school as a teacher, under false pretenses. After that discovery, I tell you plainly I hesitate to attach credit to any statement that you may wish to make. Miss Ladd's drawing-master, Mr. Alban Morris, is even more devoted to Miss Emily's service than I am.
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