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We'uns both owed 'im a grudge sence he beat you in de race an' won what leetle money we'uns had. De nex' best hoss in de barn is Dolly, an' we'll take her 'long to keep de bay compney." Turner: "Dat suits me all right; but I want to ride Velox, 'cause he went past me in de race. Won't I make 'im trabble, do, down de ribber road! Dat's my holt." Wiles: "We'uns must wait till we git a good night.
But give it not admittance at thy door, Lest it comes in, and so goes out no more. IV. If begging and promising will not do, 'Twill by its wiles attempt to flatter you. I'm harmless, mean no ill, be not so shy Will ev'ry soul-destroying motion cry. 'Twill hide its sting, 'twill change its native hue, Vile 'twill not, but a beauty seem to you.
"To forgive, to condone, is always commendable in man; but, madam, there is a higher duty men owe to womanhood to chaste and trusting womanhood, incapable of defending itself from the wiles and schemes which ever are waiting to ensnare it. "It is for this reason, and for this reason alone, that, my suspicions fully aroused, I have been at some pains to verify them.
Malfalconnet had received no confidence either from the Emperor or any male member of the court, yet he knew all, for, though the Marquise de Leria well deserved the reputation of secrecy, she did not keep her tongue sufficiently in check while talking with her gay countryman. What she overheard, he succeeded by his amiable wiles in learning, and this time also he had not failed.
He had been unable to induce the provinces to listen to his wiles, and to rush to the embrace of the monarch whose arms he described as ever open to the repentant. He had, however, been busily occupied in the course of the summer in taking up many of the towns which the treason of Anjou had laid open to his attacks.
Well, 'tain't de fust time we'uns hev borrowed a hoss an' fergot to return 'im, but we'uns never struck so high up as de Jedge's stock. What hosses air you thinkin' on?" Wiles: "What ones do you suppose? De best ones, o' course. We'uns must take Velox for de money he will bring in Paducky, an' I want to bring down de pride o' dat young upstart, George LeMonde.
Which meant ruin and destruction to the "Blue Mass Company," who had bought from a paternal and beneficent Government lands which didn't belong to it. The Mexican grant, of course, antedated the occupation of the mine by Concho, Wiles, Pedro, et al., as well as by the "Blue Mass Company," and the solitary partners, Biggs and Thatcher. More than that, it swallowed up their improvements.
Coxon's soaring mind regarded himself as left with Alicia, and he hoped that the necessary exercise of discretion would be forthcoming from Miss Scaife. Presently this little comedy revealed itself to Eleanor, and, after an amused glance at the retreating figure of her misguided friend, she would bury herself in Tomes on the British Colonies, and abandon Alicia to the visitor's wiles.
The girl was young enough, and new enough to sway Jude after a fashion, but the charm died almost at birth. "See here." Jude slipped from the clinging hands, and glared angrily. "You ain't ever properly learned your place. You better let go any fool idee that you can budge me with your wiles. I don't have to buy your favours they're mine.
It was an old fox, and they knew each other, for they had often come across each other here and there. Now then, let him show his enemy what he was made of. Again the fox practised his old wiles, darting aside, crouching down, gnashing his teeth: all in vain he had now to do with a practised foe. If only Squire John could now have seen it all!
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