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To secure a witness to the truth of his false version of the matter James must have begun by artfully bribing Henderson, Gowrie's steward, either simply to run away, and then come in later with corroboration, or actually to be present in the turret, and then escape.
His ministers were permitted to signify the intentions of their master in the various language which was best adapted to their respective principles; and he artfully balanced the hopes and fears of his subjects, by publishing in the same year two edicts; the first of which enjoined the solemn observance of Sunday, and the second directed the regular consultation of the Aruspices.
'Why carn't you lay quiet, he said angrily, 'like the turkey does? you don't deserve to be put into such a nice pie! 'If you make a pie of me, said Tommy, artfully, 'there'll be nobody to look on and laugh at you, you know! 'No more there won't, said the clown, and allowed him to crawl out, all over sauce.
A little upon one side, and you find a district of sand and birch and boulder; a little upon the other lies the valley of Apremont, all juniper and heather; and close beyond that you may walk into a zone of pine trees. So artfully are the ingredients mingled.
It was by these tender and soft insinuations, as the Earl knew full well, that he was sure to obtain what he really coveted her sanction for retaining the absolute government in the Provinces. And most artfully did he strike the key. "Most dear and gracious Lady," he cried, "my care and service here do breed me nothing but grief and unhappiness.
Do you not know the dream in which you know yourself to be guilty of murder, of bloody murder through covetousness, of theft, or of plotting to kill and inciting the innocent to it -with all the horrid retinue of fear of discovery and lies upon lies to escape it? And do you hold your own soul responsible for this? Or do you believe that chance can beget such artfully contrived complexities?
In this state of affairs he artfully deceived his foes as to the strength of his army by marching and countermarching his men within their view, each time dressed in uniform of different colors, and with varied standards and insignia of war. The invaders, deeming that an army confronted them far stronger than their own, withdrew in haste, leaving Grimoald master of the field.
In proof of his words he told each of them that the other wore armor beneath his clothes, through fear of assassination by his assumed friend. The suspicion thus artfully aroused produced the very state of things which the agent of mischief had declared to exist.
Nowhere so artfully, perhaps, as in a prairie stream, are eye and ear addressed by the manifold activities of wood and water. To come across it in the course of a long monotonous journey is as sudden as falling in love and very much like it.
"This idea Margaret, the woman I spoke of, according to my instructions, so artfully and successfully combated that Tyrrell yielded to his natural inclination, and returned once more to the infatuation of his favourite pursuit.
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