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Gilbert was aware of this, and felt that quite possibly his host was prouder of his whimsical avocation as gourmet than of his sacred profession as a bookman. "Is it possible, sir," he began, in lucid Johnsonian, "that you can concoct so delicious an entree in so few minutes? You are not hoaxing me? There is no secret passage between Gissing Street and the laboratories of the Ritz?"
My impression was that some wag had been hoaxing either the Plymouth correspondent or the London editor of the Globe. However, my curiosity was sufficiently aroused to lead me to take up another paper, to see if the Globe was the only paper which reported the occurrence.
While I have studied your advice with attention, and read your criticisms with care, I confess I have trembled more than once before your more palpable praise; for I thought you might be hoaxing me.
I don't like my daughter to associate with coloured children." "Coloured children!" repeated the now thoroughly bewildered teacher "coloured children! My dear madam," continued she, smiling, "some one has been hoaxing you I have no coloured pupils I could not be induced to receive one on any account." "I am very glad to hear you say so," rejoined Mrs.
I flattered myself that we had all done a neat bit of convincing lying in a good cause. "Odds fish!" mumbled the king, pulling his chin beard, evidently puzzled. "Odds fish!" exclaimed Frances, mimicking the king's tone of voice and twisting an imaginary beard. "Some one has been hoaxing Jacob Hall's friend."
Here are you, coming to do us all a kindness, and lease that infernal white elephant, and here have I been steadily hoaxing you for the last five minutes. I humbly ask your pardon. Set it down to the loyalty of an old family lawyer. Now, I am going to tell you the truth and take you into our confidence, for I know we are safe with you. The Kennedys are always have been just a wee bit queer.
In fact, as I recall it, one of the foreign bankers who is trying to interest him is that Count Wachtmann who, everybody says, is engaged to Miss Brixton, and is staying at the house at Woodrock. Craig, are you sure nobody is hoaxing you?" "Read that," he replied laconically, handing me a piece of thin letter-paper such as is often used for foreign correspondence.
I have translated it into French, and had it translated into Latin, but still I can find out nothing nothing. But some day somebody will hit upon it at least I hope so." Harold shook his head. "I am afraid," he said, "that what has remained undiscovered for so long will remain so till the end of the chapter. Perhaps old Sir James was hoaxing his enemies!"
By Jove though, it was the rarest piece of impudence I ever heard of; hoaxing a crowned head, quizzing one of the Lord's anointed is un peu trop fort." "If you really do not wish to render me insane at once, for the love of mercy say, in plain terms, what all this means."
Now, it is plain that Boz drew him as a genuine character, and his behaviour to the stroller was of a charitable kind. Boz, in fact, meant him to be a suitable person to relate so dismal an incident. However, all this was forgotten or put aside at the end, and having become Job's brother, he had to be in keeping. The reformed Jingle declared he was "merely acting clever rascal hoaxing fellow."
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