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I was shamming from beginning to end. 'Well, you nearly shammed yourself out of the world, I said. 'Tell me how you did it? 'I can't tell you exactly, she answered. 'When I wanted to appear to faint I just set my mind somehow I can't do it now that I am happy, and have plenty of interests in life.
It was but a shade. Wesley, watching his eye, caught an instant's warning, flung his head far back and sprang away not quickly enough to avoid a thud on the ribs. It rattled him, but did no damage, and it taught him his lesson. Round 3. Tempted in turn by his slight success, Randall shammed slow again. But once bitten is twice shy, and this time he overreached himself, in two senses.
The Fathers, too often deluded by shammed ailments, would not believe in real suffering. The price paid for our schooling and board also covered the cost of clothing. The committee contracted for the shoes and clothes supplied to the boys; hence the weekly inspection of which I have spoken. This plan, though admirable for the manager, is always disastrous to the managed.
She smiled, shammed incapacity, said a word upon some other name, then returned, if she had not fixed herself there at first, to that which the minister had proposed; so that three-fourths of the favours and opportunities which passed through the hands of the ministers in her rooms and three-fourths even of the remaining fourth-were disposed of by her.
At length two of the party, young Watson and Hooper, made a move to retire, and I insisted upon it that they should take their friend Castles with them; but he shammed so sound a sleep that it was with difficulty he was got out of the room, and it was only effected by my pulling the chair from under him; upon which he was in an instant as wide awake as any man in the room.
Lyon thought his story very striking, but he wanted to ask him whether he had not shammed a little not in relating it, but in keeping so quiet. He hesitated however, in time, to imply a doubt he was so impressed with the tone in which Colonel Capadose said that it was the turn of a hair that they hadn't buried him alive.
And now the King came home from war, and had won the fight against the other king with whom he went out to battle. So there was great joy throughout the palace, and no one was gladder than the King's daughter. But the Queen shammed sick, and took to her bed, and paid the doctor a great fee to get him to say she could never be well again unless she had some of the Dun Bull's flesh to eat.
M. H. himself, as cool as ever, but shammed to be indignant. Said we were fools if we did not take it up. Not a farthing would he pay of his old account, and fellows like us could not bring actions. Also a hatful of money was to be made of this job, managed snugly. Emigrants to California were the easiest of all things to square up.
The husband is a trading fool. He uses you as a carrot to induce donkeys. The other is more curious, and has no use for donkeys. He will use you otherwise." "Why, how will he use me then?" said open-eyed Molly. She was vaguely ill at ease; but the other shammed stupid. All she could be brought to add was "I will take care of you if I can.
Sometimes, I used to think that this desperate stupidity was a stratagem of the poor rascal's, and that he shammed dulness, so that he might be degraded into Miss Raby's class if she would teach ME, I know, before George, I would put on a pinafore and a little jacket but no, it is a natural incapacity for the Latin Grammar. If you could see his grammar, it is a perfect curiosity of dog's ears.
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