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For that reason he went home rather early, and tumbled into bed resolving upon the new future he was to face to-morrow. At least, he consoled himself with a sigh, he was now a man of experience. He had learned something of the world. He was not further to be hoodwinked.
Deserted by all in whom I have ever trusted; hoodwinked and beset by all who should help and sustain me, I fly to you for refuge. I confide in you to be my ally; to attach yourself to me by ties of interest and expectations. I regret having been severed from you so long." Mr. Pecksniff looked up to the ceiling, and clasped his hands in rapture.
"And do you suppose a detective values his life if by his death he can bring notorious criminals to justice?" I asked. "What exactly do you mean?" We might have been discussing some commonplace question across a tea table. "For the sake of argument, let us suppose one or two of your confederates have not hoodwinked me so completely as you have done.
The iron had not yet entered into the soul. The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked, when the harp of the poet was to be hung on the willows of Arno, and the right hand of the painter to forget its cunning.
To have been hoodwinked by a girl, whose devotion to the unhappy wretch she called her father had transformed her into a heroine to have fallen so easily into the trap that had been set for him, being all the while profoundly impressed with the sense of his own cleverness was, to say the least of it, depressing to the spirits of a first-class detective. "And that fellow Vallance, too," mused Mr.
She could actually affect to wink at them that she might gain her point, and have her amusement, and live for the hour, treacherously beguiling a hoodwinked pair to suppose her partially blind or wholly complaisant. My father knew her and fenced her. 'Had I yielded, he said, when my heart was low after the parting, 'I should have shown her my hand.
I saw that she only wanted to gain time in order to carry out her scheme. I did not let myself be hoodwinked by her promises, but went straight to work, being determined to have my own way. Hearing from Mademoiselle d'Amurande that her friend and ally, the old commander, was still living, I was glad to know that she had in him such a stanch supporter.
"Then, again," he ruminated, "Kendale is thoroughly selfish to the backbone, and if he has successfully hoodwinked these people and is living off the fat of the land and rolling in money, as it were, ten chances to one he has quite forgotten my very existence. "He ought to have sent me more provisions to-day, and more tobacco; and it is nightfall and no sign of any one."
'I wouldn't do it, if I wos you, I wouldn't indeed. If you must tell 'em, wait a year or two, till they've settled down A loud knock on the door interrupted her. 'There they are now, I remarked. 'And no matter what you say I shall explain everything before they leave to-day. They shall know how they've been hoodwinked.
Not but what there is good material in England too, but it is raw material, ignorant and apathetic, hoodwinked and bamboozled by the political humbugs." "Have you known Kosinski long?" I inquired, interrupting him, for I saw he was fairly started on a long tirade. "Oh, some seven years," he replied.
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