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As I was, Europeanly speaking, single-handed, this may have seemed an imprudent course, and no doubt it was not altogether unattended with danger; but it luckily turned out that the tiger was stone dead, though he was lying in such a natural position that we had some doubts as to whether he might not be shamming, even when we got within fifteen yards of him.
By serving in shops, by drinking himself drunk, and by shamming good fortune, Jacob Griffiths gave testimony to the miseries and joys of life, and at the age of fifty-six he fell back in his bed at his lodging-house in Clapham, suffered, drew up his crippled knees and died.
She started violently at the sound of his voice, but she did not immediately turn around. When she did so, her demeanour was almost a shock to him. There was no sign of nervousness or apology in her manner. Her eyes flashed at him angrily. She wore a loose red wrap trimmed with white fur, a dishabille unusually and provokingly attractive. "So you were shamming sleep!" she exclaimed indignantly.
Not a muscle twitched amongst them, not even the powerful muscles of Gaspar Ruiz, who, deluged with the blood of his neighbours and shamming death, strove to appear more lifeless than the others. He was lying face down. The sergeant recognized him by his stature, and being himself a very small man, looked with envy and contempt at the prostration of so much strength.
'A sham dragon, shamming sleep, has destroyed more virgins than all the heathen emperors, says old Hans Aepfelmann of Duesseldorf. Margarita's foot was tapping quicker. 'Speak, Dietrich! she said. Dietrich declared to the Club that at this point he muttered, 'We love you. Margarita was glad to believe he had not spoken of himself.
For more than three weeks we went from place to place with no apparent destination, wandering aimlessly up and down the country-side of Northern France, imposing ourselves upon the people of little villages, shamming battle over their cultivated fields, and sleeping in their hen coops. I kept a diary on that hike. It was a thing forbidden, but I managed it. One manages many things out there.
The conclusion is a natural one, but none the less mistaken, that the child who is discovered to be shamming has nothing the matter with it is simply a naughty child. This is a fact of much importance, on which I shall have occasion to insist further on.
In a very few minutes I could see that of this too there existed traditions in his tribe; but no efforts or coaxing could get a word from him about them. At last I hinted about grog, and presently he feigned consent: I gave it him; but as soon as he had drunk it he began shamming intoxication, and then went to sleep, or pretended to do so, letting me kick him pretty hard and never budging.
Surely a sound at the gate! She sat up, crimson. Well? she was going to make friends with her guardian to bury the hatchet for a whole fortnight at least. Only that. Nothing more nothing nothing! Steps approached. She hastily unearthed a neglected work-basket, and a very ancient piece of half-done embroidery. Was there a thimble anywhere or needles! Yes! by good luck. Heavens! what shamming!
The doctors were divided in opinion. Some said the shock of what had taken place in the house, coming on the back of the other shock, might, for all they knew, have done the mischief. And others said, 'She got her speech again after the accident; there has been no new injury since that time; the woman is shamming dumb, for some purpose of her own. I let them dispute it as they liked.
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