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A few speculators got them up and made money themselves out of land and contracts, while the shareholders they had hoodwinked starved. 'There's something in that, I conceded to this bigoted old conservative; 'my sister at Langeoog rents her lodging-house from a man named Dollmann; they say he owns a heap of land about. I saw his yacht once pink velvet and electric light inside. they say
McDougal walked forward to pick up the hose-pipe again, and as he met the brakeman who had exhibited some intelligence before, he gave him a very sly wink. The officer of the watch was more than suspicious. He was an old hand at mischief himself, and not easily hoodwinked by "our fellows."
It is not a desirable residence, you know, daddy. No modern improvements, for instance. But I have to live in it!... Still, I have not the least intention of dying, and I solemnly promise that I won't." So these two hoodwinked Rudolph Musgrave, and brought it about by subterfuge that his child was born.
"Drinking himself drunk like a sot, or hoodwinked by a cunning, unscrupulous woman for her own vile ends. Silence, sir!" he thundered as La Mothe sprang forward in protest. "You ask for proofs, and when I come to proofs you would cry me down with some mewling folly.
You made a good stroke with the archbishop. You hoodwinked us all." Maurice did not reply. "Very well; we shall not dwell on it. You are discreet." Maurice saw that Beauvais was speaking in good faith. "You have something to say; come to it at once, for it is trying to watch you so closely." "I will give you " He hesitated and scratched his chin.
But perhaps it may be nearer the mark to suppose that his dulness is guarantee for his sincerity; or that before he is the tool of the profligacy of others, he is the dupe of his own jaundiced feelings, and narrow, hoodwinked perceptions. "Destroy his fib or sophistry: in vain The creature's at his dirty work again!"
If we are attacked again, we will unite our forces within the isthmus, and meet the invader from there." But Themistocles was not the man to be hoodwinked by the simple cunning of the Spartans. By his advice the Athenians dismissed the envoys, promising to send an embassy to discuss the matter at Sparta.
The intentions that I bear towards you now are of another kind; 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.
The hoodwinked Clayton never knew of the fierce secret battle at Tacoma, in which Arthur Ferris had flatly refused to come East and make the great quiet coup de finance until Worthington had agreed to a private ceremony before his departure.
He could have torn his hair at the thought of the way in which he had allowed them to slip through his fingers. It was fully an hour before he finally abandoned the search, and acknowledged to himself that he had been hoodwinked for the third time, and that a long week would elapse before he could have another chance of solving the mystery.
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