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And I'm tired of dropping checks along the trail of public stenographers.... Suppose we talk terms. We haven't fixed on any salary, yet." Claire felt a rising impatience. His subterfuge seemed too childish and obvious. "That will depend on how much of my time you expect, Mr. Stillman." "Well, three times a week, anyway ... to start with.
The professor's going was not unaccompanied by difficulties. Miss Melissa had insisted that if he was to accompany the expedition, she was going along, too. This being manifestly impossible, the man of science was driven to the subterfuge of placing a bag of fossils in his bed to represent him.
Her personal liability once proved, Esther was ostensibly liable, beyond dispute, for three hundred and more thousand francs of debts. In all this Carlos displayed no great powers of invention. The farce of false debts is often played in Paris. There are many sub-Gobsecks and sub-Gigonnets who, for a percentage, will lend themselves to this subterfuge, and regard the infamous trick as a jest.
Castaing's injunctions, she dressed herself in some of the clothes of the servant Victoire, in the hope that if she went into his bedroom thus disguised, Hippolyte would not recognise her. But even this subterfuge was forbidden by Castaing, and Mme. Martignon had to content herself with listening in an adjoining room for the sound of her brother's voice.
"Yes! the captain had his wife." "What has become of her?" "She is supposed to have perished on a portion of the raft which broke adrift." "Ha!" replied the Commandant, who remained silent for some time. Philip looked at Krantz, as much as to say, "Why all this subterfuge;" but Krantz gave him a sign to leave him to speak. "You say you don't know whether your captain is alive or dead?" "I do."
But how could he be caught, his wife demanded, with contracting blue eyes? Had his firm failed? And after a little, lie and subterfuge within lie and subterfuge being unwrapped, it appeared, the fact. He had "gone into cotton" with whose money? His mother's estate, those excellent four per cent gold bonds that the thrifty judge had put aside for his widow!
It bade me rouse my spirit and go on with the thoughts and purposes that had been stirring and proliferating in my mind when I had returned to England from the Cape. "Dismiss your passion." But I urged that that I could not do; there was the thought of Mary subjugated and weeping, the smarting memory of injury and defeat, the stains of subterfuge and discovery, the aching separation.
In the clear morning sunlight I had no chance of escape or subterfuge. There was terror in my face, and she could see it. "You you cannot be sure!" I exclaimed. "It may not be the same man." "It is the same man," she answered confidently. "He stopped me and asked if I could direct him to your house. It was about half an hour after you had gone. He spoke very softly and almost like a foreigner.
Both houses will be in perpetual oscillation between abortive attempts at energy, and still more unsuccessful attempts at compromise. You will be impatient of your disease, and abhorrent of your remedy. A spirit of subterfuge and a tone of apology will enter into all your proceedings, whether of law or legislation.
A religion thus interlarded with quibble, subterfuge, and pun, has a tendency to instruct its professors in the practice of these arts. They acquire the habit without being aware of the cause.
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