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"If thy heart, O my Chosen, be clean, unsullied with fear and guile; if thy faith be the faith of thy fathers and thy honour rooted in love of thy land; if thou hast faith in the strength of thy hands to hold the reins of Empire ... enter, having no fear." "Trick-work," he told himself. He set his teeth with determination. "Hope they don't see fit to cut me to pieces on suspicion. Here goes."
It was flagrant trick-work; but, having the notion fixed, I felt entitled to play with it, Oh, you beauty! 'Amen! She is a beauty. I can feel it. 'So will every man who has any sorrow of his own, said Dick, slapping his thigh. 'He shall see his trouble there, and, by the Lord Harry, just when he's feeling properly sorry for himself he shall throw back his head and laugh, as she is laughing.
'I think it's just the horridest, beastliest thing I ever saw, she answered, and turned away. 'More than you will be of that way of thinking, young woman. Dick, there's a sort of murderous, viperine suggestion in the poise of the head that I don't understand, said Torpenhow. That's trick-work, said Dick, chuckling with delight at being completely understood.
You'll see. Go on, aim carefully, right smack at that looking-glass fire!" Still somewhat doubting, Merton fired. The mirror was shattered, but a dozen feet back of him the treacherous Mexican threw up his arms and fell lifeless, a bullet through his cowardly heart. It was a puzzling bit of trick-work, he thought, but Baird of course would know what was right, so the puzzle was dismissed.
The traditional Lichfield, she decided in the outcome, may very possibly have been just the trick-work of a charlatan's cleverness; but, even in that event, here were the tales of life in Lichfield ardent, sumptuous and fragrant throughout with the fragrance of love and roses, of rhyme and of youth's lovely fallacies; and for the pot-pourri, if it deserved no higher name, all who believed that living ought to be a uniformly noble transaction could not fail to be grateful eternally.
"I think to do what he did by a trick is really more of a feat than to be led by real thought-transference." "Except that the real thing isn't available and trick-work is." Hanlon smiled genially as he said this, and Embury, a little impatiently, urged him to go on, and begged the others to cease their interruptions. "Well," Hanlon resumed, "understand, then, that I cannot be really blindfolded.
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