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So perhaps we had better see what our two heads can develop in the way of counterplot, and you can make known the result to Olive." "If your own invention will not serve, I fear mine will be at an utter loss. But you know how glad I shall be to share your confidence." "My invention must serve," she said, firmly, and quite ignoring the latter clause of his speech; "and so must yours.
Publicity, it may be, did not please them: or else, thinking to have only women to deal with, they were not armed and did not like the look of the pistol. Rechid, evidently no coward, or past feeling fear in rage at the failure of his counterplot, ran on, wheezing slightly he was fat for his age toward the erect Arab and the prostrate negro.
What characters belong in common to plot and counterplot? Does Falstaffe show any material differences in character as he appears in this Play, in comparison with the way he appears in "Henry IV?" Contrast the feelings of Falstaffe before and after the Buckbasket episode? In which scene is Ford the worst duped?
This is a conspiracy! You have met here by appointment! You are playing Booty with my clerk, are you, Copperfield? Now, take care. You'll make nothing of this. We understand each other, you and me. There's no love between us. You were always a puppy with a proud stomach, from your first coming here; and you envy me my rise, do you? None of your plots against me; I'll counterplot you!
The working of all great organisation there is underground it is easy enough to meet plot by counterplot, to suborn, to deceive, to undermine. But here all the great games of life seem to be played with the cards upon the table. We are hopelessly out of place. I cannot think, Prince, what ill chance led you to ever contemplate making your headquarters in London."
I therefore want you to help me with your advice and assistance, so that we may get up a counterplot to spoil their fun for I'm quite certain that if we fail to hark! what's that?" Will did not answer, but both listened intently to the sound which had interrupted Captain Dall's discourse.
The frou-frou and fripperies of nineteenth-century social gatherings and drawing-rooms are here described in analytical detail, while much plot and counterplot go toward the making of a book that is a departure from the usual run of what is ordinarily written under the genre of "novel" literature. For sale everywhere, or sent post-paid on receipt of price. F. TENNYSON NEELY, Publisher,
His policy was one of endless plot and counterplot. He trusted no man; his servants were paid to act as spies on one another; his bodyguard consisted of mutually hostile mercenaries; his captains in the field were watched and thwarted by commissioners appointed to check them at the point of successful ambition or magnificent victory.
For the first few moments his strong excitement fronting the curtain, amid a great host of hearts thumping and quivering up in the smaller measures like his own, together with the predisposing belief that this was to be a night of events, stopped his consciousness that all had been thwarted; that there was nothing but plot, plot, counterplot and tangle, disunion, silly subtlety, jealousy, vanity, a direful congregation of antagonistic elements; threads all loose, tongues wagging, pressure here, pressure there, like an uncertain rage in the entrails of the undirected earth, and no master hand on the spot to fuse and point the intense distracted forces.
If my simple counterplot should fail, some knowledge of the powder-convoy's route would be of prime importance. Lacking the time to warn the over-mountain men, the next best thing would be to set some band of patriot troopers upon the trail and so to overtake the convoy.
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