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I might have married her, instead of your father doing so, if he hadn't played an underhanded trick which " "Stop, Sir . You shall not say a word against, my father." "Good for Dora!" thought Dick. "She's the right kind." "Your mother is quite willing to marry me, and as a dutiful daughter you should bow to her wishes." "Mother is not herself, Mr. Crabtree.
The high aristocracy, indignant at this manoeuvre, worked against her in an underhanded opposition, in which the double character of the Duke de Medina-Coeli was more and more developed.
Youth, beauty, high spirits, the London season, first love warranted the genuine article parental opposition to the union of Romeo and Juliet, on the vulgar, unpoetical ground of Romeo having no particular income and vague expectations; the natural impatience of eighteen and five-and-twenty when they don't get their own way in everything; misunderstandings, ups-and-downs, reconciliations and new misunderstandings; finally one rather more serious than its predecessors, and judicious non-interference of bystanders underhanded bystanders who were secretly favouring another suitor, who wasn't so handsome and showy as Romeo certainly, but who was of sterling worth and all that sort of thing.
Even Dolly was a little scared at that. It never occurred to her to doubt what Bessie said. Somehow, people seemed always to be ready to believe her. And, remembering the way Holmes had declared that he had spoken with Miss Mercer, Dolly began to realize that Bessie was right, and that there must be something underhanded about Holmes.
If a man is sentenced for ten years, and has been in one of the shops for two or three years, and has learned to do his work well, the contractor will want to keep him instead of letting him go, and will, no doubt, in an underhanded way, do all against the poor prisoner he can.
"You?" said the doctor, "I thought you wanted him to marry Dora." "If you thought that," said Miss Panney, flashing her black eyes upon him, "why did you lend yourself to such an underhanded piece of business as the sending of that Drane girl there?" "Oh, bless my soul!" exclaimed the doctor, "I did not lend myself to anything. I did not send her there to be married.
I had never done a mean or underhanded thing before in my life, but I sprang at that vest without the least hesitation, and fingering it was the lightest of touches, found in the smallest of inside pockets a key, which instinct immediately told me was that of the door I had once endeavored to pass.
Of the disinterestedness of their intentions towards Bella, I say nothing. But the craft, the secrecy, the dark deep underhanded plotting, written in Mrs Boffin's countenance, make me shudder. As an incontrovertible proof that those baleful attributes were all there, Mrs Wilfer shuddered on the spot. There is excitement in the Veneering mansion.
"You want me to do this without telling anybody about it?" questioned Ruth, bluntly. "Oui, oui, Mademoiselle! You have the discernment beyond your years. Indeed!" "I knew it must be something underhanded you wanted," declared Ruth, boldly. He laughed and Ruth saw a small envelope thrust toward her in the dusk of the passage. "You will take it?" he said.
Harris was greatly touched with this mark of confidence, and said so, in a voice that had a perceptible tremble in it; but at the same time he said he did not feel himself worthy of so conspicuous a favor; that it might cause jealousy in the command, for there were plenty who would not hesitate to say he had used underhanded means to get the appointment, whereas his conscience would bear him witness that he had not sought it at all, nor even, in his secret heart, desired it.
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