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"You poor kiddie!" he said, as he had said the first time he met her. "Well, on this particular point all you have to do is remember what Beatrice Fairfax says, 'Never explain and never confess, and you'll be respected and admired by all." "It sounds like getting admiration and respect under false pretenses," Joy answered doubtfully.
Yes, there is that very sum which a man, I know, has left in my hands in deposit for profit. He named a very heavy interest. However, I will certainly take something off and give it to you on better terms. With pretenses like this he fawns on the wretched victim and induces him to swallow the barb."
He still uses the name he had registered when I came so near catching him nine months ago "James Walker"; doubtless the same he adopted when he fled from Silver Gulch. An unpretending man, and has small taste for fancy names. I recognized the hand easily, through its slight disguise. A square man, and not good at shams and pretenses.
Tell him you will need at least seventy-five dollars, as you haven't been able to collect anything." "I can't do it," said Jasper. "Can't do it! What do you mean?" "I mean that by such a letter I should deceive my employer and be obtaining money from him by false pretenses. I can't do it." "Look here, boy," said Jack, sternly, "you don't know the man you are trifling with.
Hereupon Joab met him in the gate, and received him in the kindest manner, as if he were Abner's most benevolent acquaintance and friend; for such as undertake the vilest actions, in order to prevent the suspicion of any private mischief intended, do frequently make the greatest pretenses to what really good men sincerely do.
Perhaps the very interest felt in my release, and the exertions unsparingly used especially in Baltimore to secure it, strengthened the false impressions or pretenses of the Federal powers. I write in the firm assurance that no Southern friend will deem these words ungracious or ungrateful.
We all passed through M. Charnot somewhat uneasy at entering under false pretenses, as I guessed from the way he suddenly drew up his head.
I put him down as a sort of impostor; and while ashore, a gentleman on false pretenses; for no gentleman would have treated another gentleman as he did me. Yes, Captain Riga, thought I, you are no gentleman, and you know it! And now that I have been speaking of the captain's old clothes, I may as well speak of mine.
However it might seem to those evidently greatly struck with her extraordinary good luck, her triumph was in reality only the most pitiful of pretenses. But such as it was, and it gleamed richly enough on the eyes of the onlookers, she shook it out with a flourish and gave no sign of heartsick qualms. "How do you happen to come East just now, anyhow?" inquired old Mr.
How did these people dare to use the name of Whig, how dare to resort to such false pretenses, when it was common knowledge that the personnel of that party, having been put down as Federalists for gross usurpation and monarchist practices had, being forced to change their skin, adopted the title of the liberal party of England, remaining more Tory than the party that tried to destroy American liberty during the Revolution?
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