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There was no shamming here the shock had been heavy the bolt had struck home. "This is serious, truly," murmured the older physician. "We had better remove her to a side room and loosen up her garments." Many were willing to assist, but Raymond shook them off and he and Doctor Bird carried Margaret into the room where the jury had arrived at the verdict which had so stunned her.
Frere, unable to comprehend the reason of the calmness with which the doomed felon met his taunts and torments, thought that he was shamming piety to gain some indulgence of meat and drink, and redoubled his severity. He ordered Dawes to be taken out to work just before the hour at which the chaplain was accustomed to visit him.
Flora may make anything of him, and we are so thankful to her for having found it out!" "Thank you for telling me," said Ethel. "It is much more satisfactory to have no shamming." Meta laughed, for Ethel's sham was not too successful; she continued, "Dear Dr.
But I assure you you could not have brought me pleasanter news; and yet I have not a word to say against your sister. I know that is a privilege you reserve for yourself; and quite right too. It was manifestly clear that Captain King was not shamming satisfaction; not for many a day had his face looked so bright. 'Well, I'm glad you take it that way, said Mr. Tom. 'I thought you would be cut up.
He would sit with it in his hand all day, and at night would draw near to the fire, and pore over its pages as long as the flames burnt with sufficient brightness. I felt sure from the first that he was in earnest, though J warned me that he was only shamming, and that as soon as he could have a chance he would be off with anything he could lay hands on.
Nobody paid any attention to him; even Venia, seeing that he was safe, was on her knees by the side of the unconscious Blundell. "He he's shamming," bawled the neglected Mr. Turnbull. "Shame!" said somebody, without even looking round. "He pushed me in," repeated Mr. Turnbull. "He pushed me in." "Oh, father," said Venia, with a scandalised glance at him, "how can you?"
Moody's change of demeanour had not escaped the notice of the captain; and he commented on it to Mr Meldrum, saying that he thought the lesson he had given him had had a very satisfactory result. "There is nothing," said he, "so persuasive as a knock-down argument!" The other, however, did not believe in the rapid conversion. "I've heard of shamming Abraham before," said he.
But if I make a young woman my wife because I want her money, and if that young woman happens to be worth a straw, I must deceive her and disgrace myself by shamming love. That, my boy, you may depend upon it, I will never do." Dick's face suddenly brightened with a mingled expression of relief and triumph.
The change from all your former habits, the wakeful night, the violent exercise, the exhaustion, are slowly undermining your health at this moment, and preparing you for consumption or colic, for asthma or the delights of gout. However, you hold out in spite of all, though many a time your right place would be in bed. But that would never do: that looks like shamming, like shirking your work.
I shammed ill at dinner; and so secured the whole of the interval from then till tea-time to my own use. "What I was about, while the household believed me to be lying down in my own room; and how I spent the night, after shamming ill again at tea-time, and having been sent up to bed, there is no need to tell you. Sergeant Cuff discovered that much, if he discovered nothing more.
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