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There was no one with less air of reticence; I plunged into my company up to the neck; and I had a long cock-and-bull story of an aunt of mine which must have convinced the most suspicious of my innocence. "What!" they would have said, "that young ass to be concealing anything! Why, he has deafened me with an aunt of his until my head aches.
"From her own brain, in order to impress us with a cock-and-bull, fairy-book story. If this were so she would quite naturally fill the role of the lover of the piece with the last man who had happened to impress her. Hence the resemblance." "You presuppose a great deal, Bickley, including supernatural cunning and unexampled hypnotic influence.
"That's sensible talk, sir," assented Barlow. "Bah!" exclaimed Hamilton. "You might as well talk of keeping on the good side of the American traitors a bloody murrain seize the whole race!" "That's what I say," chimed in the Lieutenant, with a sly look at Helm. "They have been telling me a cock-and-bull story concerning the affair at the Roussillon cabin," Hamilton said, changing his manner.
"Ole Marster standin' in the flo' close to the vault, with his arm up so and the handi'on in his own hand " "How dare you come here, with this cock-and-bull story? You are either drunk or in your dotage. Your master has been in his grave for eighteen months, and " "Oh! to be shore I know'd what you'd say. Cuss me for an idjut; but I swar, Mars Lennox, I am that scared I dasn't to tell you no lie.
Next thing is, you runs agen 'em at Havre, cutting their cable and running for it when Government gives orders for them to stop. Next thing is, they boards our schooner like a set of pirates, only we seem too many for them; and then they cackles up a cock-and-bull story about wanting help, when they see they couldn't seize the schooner." "Look here, Captain Chubb " began the doctor.
Of this she was so confident that people began to wonder whether she had not received some assurance to that effect, and when Pete, the stable boy driver, turned up at the end of the first week with a cock-and-bull story about having stolen an Indian pony and shot his way from the midst of the Sioux away up on No Wood Creek, on the west side of the hills, and having ridden by night and hidden by day until he got back to the Platte and Frayne, people felt sure of it.
He must have seen that he had not one of the common herd to deal with and felt a little ashamed of himself; he carried it off with a display of more roughness. "All a cock-and-bull story, that sore foot of yours! Yes, yes; you may go. Go in a carriage, go in a balloon, if you choose. We have too many of you malingerers in the army!"
"I should like to send that Captain Bowers out searching for it," said Brisket, scowling, "and keep him out there till he finds it. It's all his fault. If it hadn't been for his cock-and-bull story we shouldn't ha' done what we did. Hanging's too good for him." "I suppose it's best for them not to know that there's no such island?" hazarded Mr. Duckett. "O' course," snapped his companion.
They had been killed by the simple villagers of Slim, and a cock-and-bull story trumped up to account for their disappearance.
"Yes. He was killed the other day in France." "I hadn't heard. Poor chap!" "I think he showed extraordinary courage. He started off from London to join the French Army ... all his friends dined him jolly well ... and wished him good-luck, and so on, and then he went off. And a week later, he turned up again with a cock-and-bull story about having been arrested as a deserter.
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