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So he had dreamed of her only that morning; so she had appeared to him only a few hours since when, at her bidding, trusting her, believing in her, loving her, he had turned his back on his duty betrayed. Resentment at the treachery warred with his love and tinged his sorrow with bitterness. How she had played with him, tricking him, fooling him, outwitting him and yet loving him.
They would have succeeded, had not Bindoes devoted himself on behalf of his nephew, and, by tricking the officer in command, enabled Chosroes to place such a distance between himself and his pursuers that the chase had to be given up, and the detachment to return, with no more valuable capture than Bindoes, to Ctesiphon.
"Father, don't play tricks with my life," exclaimed Modeste, turning pale. "Then, my daughter, summon all your courage. It is you who have been playing tricks with your life, and life is now tricking you." Modeste looked at her father in stupid amazement. "Suppose that young man whom you love, whom you saw four days ago at church in Havre, was a deceiver?"
But my severest critics have not pretended to have found in my compositions triviality, or traces of a mind that shrunk from the toil of thinking. No one has charged me with tricking out in other words the thoughts of others, or with hashing up anew the cramben jam decies coctam of English literature or philosophy.
And at last, Gott sei Dank! they let me go, glowering at me as if they were still sure I was somehow tricking them. And here I am alive!" Friedrich's ludicrous recital, embellished by a hundred gestures and poses, had raised a guffaw even in Villa Elsa.
At one moment the thing she feared and her whole being recoiled from the thought of it with a shaking disgust the thing she feared seemed to her fact. Then something occurred to make her distrust herself. And she felt that betraying imagination of hers at work, obscuring all issues, tricking her, punishing her. And when the meal was over she did not know at all.
Can you tell me if Siddle's mother is dead yet?" The question found Doris so thoroughly unprepared that she blurted out: "Have you had a telegram, too, then?" "No. But Siddle has had one, eh? Don't be vexed. I'm not tricking you into revealing post office secrets.
And, after all, what was the tricking of his grandfather out of a few thousands that were really his own? It was a family matter, which should never have been made public at all." "That's what I told father," faltered Dora. "The best thing you can do, Dora, is to mollify Mr. Ormsby. Don't anger him.
"Sanda had the childish impudence to tell me to-night that nothing could ever make any difference between us after what had passed. Perhaps it was partly my fault, for I lost my head for a minute when she accused me of tricking her into marrying me, or words to that effect. I'm afraid I said she had forced me into it thrown herself at me taken me unawares something of that sort.
He had grown curiously at ease when he had found himself in an Iroquois camp. I had no choice but to believe that Pemaou had tricked and deceived him, as he had said, but that did not mean that he had not been in league with Pemaou in the beginning. Pemaou was capable of tricking a confederate.
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