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Updated: May 10, 2025
He was aiming to make you a self-confessed criminal before we could have time to turn a wheel. At that, I wired a Cincinnati detective agency, and a young man who knew his business was put on the job. The detective's reports showed the whole thing up. Geddis, Withers and Whitredge were hustling like mad to make capital out of your recapture by the prison authorities.
"And it would be the word of a self-confessed thief against that of the biggest owner within two hundred miles, and Slade would laugh at him or kill him, according to whatever mood he happened to be in." They had turned their horses down a long ridge that led to the wagon in the bottoms.
Which means that you cheated to-night." "If you like to put it that way." "And what if I denounced you as a self-confessed cheat?" "It wouldn't matter to me. I wouldn't take the trouble to deny it. Nobody would believe you." "You're a cool hand, Pony, I admire your cheek. Still, you've got some silly elements in you." "Oh, you mean my trying to reform you? Don't make any mistake about that.
And so it was that Rilla Blythe, who had driven to the Anderson house a self-confessed hater of babies, drove away from it carrying one in a soup tureen on her lap! Rilla thought she would never get to Ingleside. In the soup tureen there was an uncanny silence. In one way she was thankful the baby did not cry but she wished it would give an occasional squeak to prove that it was alive.
Though the expedition was in Italian territory, though he was aware that a tribe of hostile Arabs was already hovering on the outskirts of the camp, though the presence of Irene rendered it imperative that he should not risk the attack which would probably be made that night, these urgent conditions of the moment did not prevail in the least degree against the maddening suspicion that the self-confessed forger who had duped him had put the seal on a piece of clever rascality by exploiting the real treasure-ground for his own benefit.
"You can't prove anything against me," said Stark, doggedly, "unless you accept the word of a self-confessed burglar, who is angry with me because I would not join him." "All these protestations it would be better for you to keep till your trial begins, Mr. Stark," said the manufacturer.
A situation is to him all wrong or all right; he cannot see that a part may be wrong, while another part is right. Now in the case of the self-confessed culprits, the magnanimity and heroism of the act stand out so prominently that they quite overshadow the trifling circumstance that the hero did not do the wicked deed.
On the face of things, it was absurd to imagine that a self-confessed wanderer should be permitted to see his first Derby in the sacrosanct company of a stout aunt and a well-filled luncheon basket.
Is it logical to suppose that he would lend his influence and his good name to any such ridiculous scheme?" She sighed, almost convinced. Corrigan went on, earnestly: "This man Trevison is a disturber he has always been that. He has no respect for the law or property. He associates with the self-confessed murderer, Levins.
At the same time the Communion is not to be interpreted in any gross or carnal manner, or in such a way as to give colour to the ancient taunt of Celsus, the heathen critic, that Christians were self-confessed cannibals.
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