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He remembered that if he were in any other difficulty he would turn quite naturally to her for advice, although he had known her so short a time, and he regretted that in his present predicament he was debarred from putting the case before her. And yet, why not? He might put the supposititious case of a friend, and ask what the friend ought to do. He dismissed this a moment later.
Whatever extenuation may be found for Madame de Verneuil in such an attempt as this; whatever indulgence may be conceded to a woman baffled in her ambition, misled by her confidence in a supposititious claim, and urged on by a blind and uncalculating affection for her children, it is difficult to find any excuse for the persevering ingratitude of her step-brother.
This arch was much extolled, and particularly for the invention of the architecture, and because he had made an imitation of that same door of the Badia for the entrance of the Via del Palagio, executed in perspective with the steps and every other thing, so that the painted and supposititious door was in no way different from the real and true one.
But des let 'n'er nigger so much ez stick der chin 'cross de yard palin's, en, bless yo' soul, you'll year Miss F'raishy blaze out like de woods done cotch afire." Mingo paused here to chuckle over the discomfiture and alarm of the imaginary negro who had had the temerity to stick his supposititious chin over the fence. Then he went on
The skipper therefore carefully laid down upon his chart the supposititious course of the Virginia from the Gaboon to Cape Palmas, and thence onward to the Caribbean Sea; and then shaped a course to enable us to fall in with her on the latter, at a spot about one hundred miles to the westward of Palmas.
When she had talked her fill about herself to Christophe, she began to talk about him: she battered him with questions as intimate as her answers had been to the supposititious questions which he had never asked. She reminded him of it jokingly without much delicacy. She asked him for his autograph for her album. She pestered him with questions about Paris.
The child bent her pretty head shyly on one side, and went on putting more sticks under her supposititious pot. I found the little spectacle reward enough in itself and in a sort compensation for our failure to see the exquisite alabaster tomb of Juan II. and his wife Isabel which makes the Cartuja Church so famous.
Her voice, hesitant, and low, but, to his relief, gentle, broke the interminable spell. "Suppose suppose I were to tell you that that I'm not going to marry Judge Granger, because after you came here yesterday I knew how impossible it was and wrote and told him so. And " "Mary! Mary, don't make it supposititious," he appealed, leaping to his feet. "That would be cruelty!
Presenting the case as though it were a supposititious one purely, I said to him: "Presuming now that one of your guests is in a bathtub and finds he has forgotten to lay in any towels beforehand such a thing might possibly occur, you know how does he go about summoning the man-servant or the valet with a view to getting some?" "Oh, sir," he replied, "that's very simple.
"I thought so, and gave your name to the court without asking your consent. It's a commission to examine documents at Milan, to prove some copies of deeds and other papers, put in by a supposititious Italian heir to establish his rights to a rather large property. You remember the case of Zampini against Veldon and others?" "Quite well."
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