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If we must needs pry closely into the matter, it may be doubted whether there was any real change, after all, in the sordid, wornout worthless, and ill-jointed substance of the scarecrow; but merely a spectral illusion, and a cunning effect of light and shade so colored and contrived as to delude the eyes of most men.
"Let no vain hope of escape delude your mind. The doors will be kept locked; the servants are all warned not to suffer you to leave the house. Look to it, Clara, for the rising of another sun shall see my purpose accomplished!" And with these words the atrocious wretch left the room.
And how could an uncle of Steadman's come by all that money and those jewels if they were jewels, and not bits of glass which the poor old thing has chopped up, in order to delude himself with an imaginary treasure? 'I do not think they are bits of glass, Molly.
The "Irish accounts" may have been exaggerated, but the English atoned for this by certainly falling below the mark, as is clear from the fact that, according to them, the Commissioners of Ireland required the "supply" for New England alone to come from "the country within twenty miles of Cork, Youghall, Kinsale, Waterford, and Wexford;" that "the hunt lasted four years," and was carried on with such ardor by the agents of many English firms that those men-catchers employed persons "to delude poor people by false pretenses into by-places, and thence they forced them on board their ships; that for money sake they were found to have enticed and forced women from their husbands, and children from their parents, who maintained them at school; and they had not only dealt so with the Irish, but also with the English."
She rose and sat down again, but was unable to contain herself and her eyes ran over with tears, whilst she repeated the following verses: O thou that seekest severance, forbear; Let not the fair delude thee with their sleight. Softly, for fortune's nature is deceit And parting is the end of love-delight. Then she said, "O my cousin, give me this piece of linen."
Still, the attempt must be made. In that terrible abyss of doubt, she must have something palpable, real; something beyond her own thoughts, and hopes, and speculations, whereon to rest her weary faith, her weary heart.... Perhaps this time, at least, in her extremest need, a god might vouchsafe some glimpse of his own beauty .... Athene might pity at last.... Or, if not Athene, some archetype, angel, demon.... And then she shuddered at the thought of those evil and deceiving spirits, whose delight it was to delude and tempt the votaries of the gods, in the forms of angels of light.
"Father, I do not want to marry any one," wistfully. "But a queen!" she added thoughtfully. "It is only a sound, my dear; do not let it delude you. Herbeck advises this alliance, and while I realize that his judgment is right, my whole soul revolts against it. But all depends upon you." "Would it benefit the people? Would it be for the good of the state?" Here was reason.
"I don't care about truth. I want some happiness." "Well, if you've got a decent mind the second has got to be qualified by the first. Any simple soul can delude himself with mental garbage." "I don't care," she held out stoutly, "and, what's more, I'm not propounding any doctrine." The argument faded off, but reoccurred to Anthony several times thereafter.
It is wonderful no one has stolen them all these years!" And so a second time the Ortegna jewels were passed on, by a written bequest, into the keeping of that mysterious, certain, uncertain thing we call the future, and delude our selves with the fancy that we can have much to do with its shaping. Life ran smoothly in the Moreno household, smoothly to the eye.
The world, and all that is in the world, drops and slips, from his feet, from his hands, carrying with it his body, his eyes, his ears, every pouch, every coffer, that could delude him with the fancy of possession. 'Is the man so freed from the dominion of things? does Death so serve him so ransom him? Why then hasten the hour?
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