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"I am sorry, lads," I said to them in French, "that I have been compelled to resort to subterfuge to make prisoners of you, but, you see, we are all invalids here, and not strong enough to take your ship by force; and therefore, since it is imperative that we should have her, I have been compelled to use guile.
'It couldn't be duplicated for 100,000 rubles; the most gorgeous sapphire in the world!... 'Are you sure this man has it?... 'Certainly! she insisted; 'didn't I see that little wasp Kerensky give it to his cousin, and didn't I see that cousin give it to this man in America?... 'Who is this man? he asked, tightening his grip until my tongue hung out.... 'They call him Fox on the west coast of America; but THAT is NOT his name, was the last I remember until I found myself lying on the roadside among the hills back yonder.... I certainly DO resemble my brother slightly and am hoping that if he has a sapphire the size mentioned by that hissing vixen he will keep it for the honor and glory of the family of Foxes.... And to think that a few days ago I was falling in love with her at the Métropole!... If man is a meditating atom, WOMAN must be a premeditating subterfuge!... I see smoke rising over the hills away to the east.... Yes, it's the smoke of guns.... I can hear the hoarse roar of heavy artillery to the right and the spitting hollow barking and coughing of lighter pieces on the left and I feel the ground quiver as I write these lines."
I am, my dear Bishop of Melchester, ever sincerely yours, A sudden revulsion from the subterfuge of writing as if she were still a widow, wrought in her mind a feeling of dissatisfaction with the whole scheme of concealment; and pushing aside the letter she allowed it to remain unfolded and unaddressed.
Miserable invention, feeble subterfuge, for the vices of mankind, although decorated with all the beauty of language.
But Bertha was not one of those persons who are overcome by a single blow, terrible as it might be. She trembled like a leaf; her legs staggered; but her mind was already at work seeking a subterfuge. What had Sauvresy seen anything? What did he know? For even had he seen the vial, this might be explained.
"No, not exactly," responded Joe; "but I thought if I was uneasy about the young men myself, that she, being more delicate than a man, must be considerably distressed." "A mere subterfuge! See that you do not leave your post in future, under any circumstances, without permission to do so." "I won't," replied Joe, peering through his loophole.
Raymond had turned the tables he smiled down upon the old lady with the masterful tenderness of youth. "Let's have it, dear." Mrs. Tweksbury resorted to subterfuge. "Well, having you off my hands," she said, smiling as if she really meant what she said, "I am thinking of Doris Fletcher!" "Do I know her?" Raymond tried to think. "No. She left New York just about the time you came to me.
You might say that they were subterfuge, disguise, delusion, romance, evasion, pretence, fable, deception, misrepresentation; but, as I am ignorant of anything to be gained by the hiding of a God-defying outrage under a lexicographer's blanket, I shall chiefly call them what my father taught me to call them lies.
For some time past the agents of Government throughout France had been instructed to solicit the First Consul to grant for the people what the people did not want, but what Bonaparte wished to take while he appeared to yield to the general will, namely, unlimited sovereign authority, free from any subterfuge of denomination.
Julia Kaye clever woman! had put the matter into an epigram. The American statesman was the superior politician. And how was he, out of tune with every phase of the country, to find the ghost of an opportunity to lead it? He was no actor. If he had a merit it was sincerity, a contempt for subterfuge as beneath both his powers and the lofty position to which he had been born.
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