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Updated: July 16, 2025
We're doing the best we can, to keep from littering the deck; but if you insist on imposing further we'll carry the matter to Government authority and see whether we were not sold tickets under false pretenses." The officer hesitated. Clearly, these three passengers knew how to stand up for themselves. He decided to let well enough alone. "You occupy the boat at your own risk, then," he snapped.
"Knowing how my father would act under such circumstances, I was dumfounded when he informed me this afternoon that you had agreed to perform under false pretenses. He was quite certain you would proceed to jilt me, now that I am strong enough to stand it. He said you had promised him you would." "I did not promise him.
Not the royalty of caste and court and station with their glittering pretenses of superiority and their superficial claims to distinction, I do not mean that; I mean that true royalty which needs no caste or court or station but makes itself felt because it IS.
And he almost bade me, 'Kill! but refrained when the word had half left his lips and changed it to a demand for the child's immediate removal from the benefits it enjoyed under false pretenses." And from this Mrs.
The matron had arrived! She looked at the letter next. It appeared to be a printed circular, with some lines in pencil added on the empty page. Printed lines and written lines swam before her eyes. She felt, rather than saw, Lady Janet's attention steadily and suspiciously fixed on her. With the matron's arrival the foredoomed end of the flimsy false pretenses and the cruel delays had come.
Afterward, when it was too late, they talked it over freely enough and blamed each other. From one job to another Dave drifted. His stubborn pride, due in part to a native honesty that would not let him live under false pretenses, in part to a bitterness that had become dogged defiance, kept him out of good places and forced him to do heavy, unskilled labor that brought the poorest pay.
She had abhorred the old woman, even as she pitied and sheltered her. She had a way of fawning and cringing and flattering no doubt in well meaning attempt to show gratitude but it was unendurable to Susan. And now that she was dead and gone, there was no call for further pretenses. "You ain't going right away?" said Mrs. Tucker. "Yes," said Susan. "You ought to stay to supper." Supper!
Now that you give me no alternative, I am compelled to hurt your feelings by declaring myself able to find the one I seek without the aid of Pauline Potter." As he speaks the last word he rises to his feet, once more feeling like himself. "What would you do now, John Craig?" "Leave this building, since I was lured here under false pretenses. What have you done with my companion?"
I say then, you must contribute money, serve in person with alacrity, accuse no one, till you have gained your objects; then, judging from facts, honor the deserving, punish offenders; let there be no pretenses or defaults on your own part for you can not harshly scrutinize the conduct of others, unless you have done what is right yourselves.
After all, it does no great harm if one man punches another in the head, or even in a fit of anger sticks a dagger in him. The police can easily handle all that. The real danger to the community lies in the crimes of duplicity the cheats, frauds, false pretenses, tricks and devices, flimflams practised most successfully by well-dressed gentlemanly crooks of polished manners."
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