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Quick! Oh, you two sillies, tell me! Seth, you've been ill, and you never told me!" Slow of wit, utterly devoid of subterfuge as Rube was, for once he grasped the situation. "Why, gal, it's jest nothin'. Seth's been mighty sick, but he's right enough now, ain't you, Seth, boy?" "Sure."
"Shamán say Holy Cross all right. Cheechalko no good; Cheechalko bring devils; Cheechalko all same him," he wound up, flinging subterfuge to the winds, and openly indicating his faithless ambassador. "Strikes me I'm gettin' the worst of this argument all round. Brother Paul's been sailing into me on pretty much the same tack."
Realizing the prime futility of any subterfuge, or any misstatement of fact which Catherine would surely discover and tell her father, and which would react against him Waldron began at the beginning and narrated the entire affair, with every detail precisely accurate.
He was grave again now, with a line between the straight brows. "Well, don't get too serious or you will frighten me. I suppose I'd better be quite direct. You and I don't either of us care for much beating about the bush and subterfuge, do we?" He signified his agreement, and she ran on. "I knew that Meryl cared for you; I have known it a long time. Yet she was going to marry van Hert.
"Well, I will start now on the borrowing expedition, and by some subterfuge, be saved the necessity of informing any person of our intention." Having moved off as he spoke, and proceeding to the tent of a brother officer, succeeded in borrowing a citizens' coat and pants without exciting any suspicion of his intended escape.
It would be wrong, indeed, to use any subterfuge or duplicity of any kind to conceal your object, but you are not bound to explain it; and in the many changes which you will be compelled to make in the course of the first week for various purposes, you may include many of these without explaining particularly the design or intention of any of them.
So saying, he sprang upon the balcony none too soon, for a moment later the door burst open and an incongruous element rushed into the room. Many were attired in outlandish head-dresses, embroidered moccasins and fringed jackets, their faces painted in various hues, but others, of a bolder spirit, had disdained all subterfuge of disguise.
He waited until Bud had come close alongside him, then led the way slowly down the path to the corrals. "I thought I heard the horses fighting," he remarked. "There was a noise down this way." "Is that why you called me outside?" asked Bud, who scorned subterfuge. "Yeah.
And we were greatly troubled at the continuance of the secrecy and subterfuge which now had become really necessary, if we did not wish to hurt our friends' feelings. The first thing that I thought of, when I opened my eyes in the morning, was the fact that we would have to stay there all day, for we could not move on Sunday. But Euphemia did not agree with me.
I was negligible, even my pathetic subterfuge had been detected and cruelly ridiculed by these friends whom I had always loved and sought out, and who now were so absorbed in their own prospects and happiness that they cared nothing for mine. And Nancy! I had been betrayed by Nancy!... Twilight was coming on.
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