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They've a poky little house in Brompton somewhere, and there was no dancing, only boshy games and a conjuror, without any presents.

But there is an awful verisimilitude about "Boshy Games and a Conjuror," and I bless the fate which allowed me to grow up in ignorance of Christmas Parties.

(*23) But a still more wonderful conjuror fashioned for himself a mighty thing that was neither man nor beast, but which had brains of lead, intermixed with a black matter like pitch, and fingers that it employed with such incredible speed and dexterity that it would have had no trouble in writing out twenty thousand copies of the Koran in an hour, and this with so exquisite a precision, that in all the copies there should not be found one to vary from another by the breadth of the finest hair.

And at her house in town, upon this muddy, murky afternoon, presents himself an old-fashioned old gentleman, attorney-at-law and eke solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, who has the honour of acting as legal adviser of the Dedlocks and has as many cast-iron boxes in his office with that name outside as if the present baronet were the coin of the conjuror's trick and were constantly being juggled through the whole set.

Bucket lost no time in transferring this paper, with the dexterity of a conjuror, from Mr.

If I had had a conjuror's cap, there is no one I should have wished for but you!

Helene had been at Erfurt during the famous meeting of the Emperors and had brought from there these connections with the Napoleonic notabilities.


At Erfurt her success had been brilliant.


Napoleon himself had noticed her in the theater and said of her: "C'est un superbe animal.


" * Her success as a beautiful and elegant woman did not surprise Pierre, for she had become even handsomer than before.


What did surprise him was that during these last two ...

young men read books before attending Helene's evenings, to have something to say in her salon, and secretaries of the embassy, and even ambassadors, confided diplomatic secrets to her, so that in a way Helene was a power.


Pierre, who knew she was very stupid, sometimes attended, with a strange feeling of perplexity and fear, her evenings and dinner parties, where politics, poetry, and philosophy were discussed.


At these parties his feelings were like those of a conjuror who always expects his trick to be found out at any moment.


But whether because stupidity was just what was needed to run such a salon, or because those who were deceived found pleasure in the deception, at any rate it remained unexposed and Helene Bezukhova's reputation as a lovely and clever woman became so firmly established that she could say the emptiest and stupidest things and everybody would go into raptures over every word of hers and look for a profound meaning in it of which she herself had no conception.


Cuckold's Haven, or an Alderman no Conjuror; a Farce; acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Dorset-Garden 1685.

I, at first, proceeded Emma, endeavoured to rally her out of her resolution, and told her that she seemed by her phrase to have been studying judicial astrology; but that I was a greater conjuror than she took me for, and assured her that I saw no baneful influence, nor malignant fatality in her horoscope; but on the contrary, love, joy, and harmony proceeding from the little twinkling star that had directed her steps to Delville, from which place I earnestly entreated she wou'd not depart till we all set out together.

I am well skill'd in Physiognomy, and to assure you that I am, you are now going about a black Work, that, let it go which way it will, must, of mere Necessity, bring you into extreme Danger and Trouble. [Page 204] Why, the Devil's in the Gentleman, (reply'd Burleigh, with a less-assur'd Tone than at first) or if the Devil is not in you, you must be the Devil himself, or at least a Conjuror.

Good Friend, return'd my Uncle, I am neither the Devil, nor a Conjuror; and yet I can tell, and foretell; and farther, I assure you (looking him full in the Face, which put the other out of Countenance) if you proceed in this Business, you'll be in some Danger of a Halter.

Not, said I, but if I look into your Hand, I need not ask the Question; for I am so skill'd in Palmistry, that I can tell things past, present, and to come; that is to say, in plain English, reply'd the Man, you are a Conjuror.

Some of the peasants even mistook him for a conjuror.

I suppose it will not be difficult to convince the reader that George looked upon me as a sort of conjuror.

One said that "He had seen him wander about by night, and look rather strangely at the moon! and then, he roamed over the hills, like a partridge." Another said, "He had heard him mutter, as he walked, in some outlandish brogue, that nobody could understand!" Another said, "It's useless to talk, Thomas, I think he is what people call a 'wise man.'" (a conjuror!) Another said, "You are every one of you wrong.

The English author, on the other hand, without supposing him less of a conjuror than the Northern Warlock, can, you observed, only have the liberty of selecting his subject amidst the dust of antiquity, where nothing was to be found but dry, sapless, mouldering, and disjointed bones, such as those which filled the valley of Jehoshaphat.

Assuming now a conjuror's office, I Thus on your future Fortune prophesy:-- Soon as your novelty is o'er, And you are young and new no more, In some dark dirty corner thrown, Mouldy with damps, with cobwebs strown, Your leaves shall be the Book-worm's prey; Or sent to Chandler-Shop away, And doomed to suffer public scandal, Shall line the trunk, or wrap the candle! Only first 17 results shown.
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