Whoever faced a Roman gladiator under the critical gaze of a crowd that knew all the points of fighting and could instantly detect, and did instantly resent pretense, fraud, trickery, the poor condition of one combatant or the unwillingness of one man to have at another in deadly earnest, had to be not only in the pink of bodily condition but a fighter such as no drunken sensualist could ever hope to be. Observing that she was not using her napkin, Dan flirted his, on pretense of straightening it out, and respread it. His expression was angelic and open, without a trace of cultivated politesse or pretense. The incident at the muskeg portage was proof that Alphonse had made false pretense of his familiarity with this district.

Sixth Cause of Action charges naked theft of characters and sequences to be found nowhere in material presented in discovery as from the public domain, in his Seventh Cause of Action which is against Kiester and his head writer Knize only, plaintiff claims misrepresentation, deceit and fraudulent conduct in the misappropriation and conversion of copyrighted material on deposit at certain public institutions, and of material obtained under false pretenses from plaintiff some years earlier. But the pretense would be useless: she had made a stand and forbidden this annulment, and everyone would know she had been defeated.īy now, I thought I had detected more genuine than simulated modesty in her reactions, and I had no doubt that the emotional excitement of the moment had begun to carry this secretly eager masochist into an actual involvement with her role, one that far transcended the feigned pretense which she had thus far conveyed.

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