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Besides, it had been anxious work, for while each had sworn to himself aforetime to protect his friend from the wiles of Miss Wishart, both were now devoted slaves drawn at that young woman's chariot wheel. You will perceive that it is a delicate matter to wage war with a goddess, and a task unblest of Heaven.
The favourite shape assumed by the goblin fox for the purpose of deluding mankind is that of a beautiful woman; much less frequently the form of a young man is taken in order to deceive some one of the other sex. Innumerable are the stories told or written about the wiles of fox- women.
Ah, I guess the old gentleman is afraid lest Tom may fall foul upon me. But Jessie Wiles is not worth a quarrel with that brute. It is a crying shame in the Government " "What! has the Government failed to appreciate the heroism of Tom Bowles, or rather to restrain the excesses of its ardour?" "Stuff! it is a shame in the Government not to have compelled his father to put him to school.
"Ever talk to one of these rich capitalists that has rubber stock for sale in South America or a self-starting banana orchard? You know how good they are. "You're certainly entitled to anything of your own that you've kept after they get through with you. And would you think that this poor, simple-minded old rancher would be any match for their wiles?
Beaumaroy appeared to consider himself absolved from any preparation, for he returned to the big chair and, sinking into it, lit another cigarette. Meanwhile Mrs. Wiles laid the table, and presently Sergeant Hooper appeared with a bottle of golden-tinted wine. "That, at least, is the real stuff," thought Beaumaroy as he eyed it in pleasurable anticipation.
She told me yesterday that if ever she did consent to marry it would have to be her father's curate; she would neither leave the parish nor her father, she said. A lot of women would have been embarrassed in saying that, and I can see the expression of your face as you read it. Spare your gibes. Jessica is miles above the ordinary tricks and wiles and falsities of women.
"By G-d, I WILL, or I don't know how to represent Remus." Mr. Wiles thanked him with his right eye, and looked a dagger with his left. "Good," he said, and added persuasively: "Does she live here?" The Congressman nodded assent. "An awfully handsome woman, a particular friend of mine!" Mr.
There is on the whole really very little "honor among thieves," at least great ones, and the inferior rascal succumbed at the reflection of what HE might do if he were in the other rascal's place. "See here, Wiles," he said, relaxing his dignity with the perspiration that oozed from every pore, and made the collar of his shirt a mere limp rag.
"Three Mexicans, Pedro, Manuel, and Miguel, headed by that d d cock-eyed Sydney Duck, Wiles." "Are they here?" "Manuel and Miguel, only. The others are over at Tres Pinos lally-gaging Roscommon and trying to rope him in to pay off their whisky bills at his grocery." "If that's so we needn't start before sunrise, for they're sure to get roaring drunk."
He was a married man a base impostor, who had sailed under false colours a very pirate. All those graceful airy compliments, those delicate attentions, which had exercised such a subtle influence over her narrow mind had, indeed, awakened in her something that was almost sentiment were worse than meaningless, were the wiles of an adventurer trading on her folly.
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