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Updated: May 23, 2025
Here was a banker, reputed wealthy, who sat in a bare room, without so much as a fireproof safe to suggest riches; a business man of world-wide affairs, who drummed indolent fingers on a bare table; a philosopher with a maxim ever ready to teach, as all maxims do, cowardice in the guise of prudence, selfishness masquerading as worldly wisdom, hard-heartedness passing for foresight.
"Very well, indeed," her eyes falling, "because it was myself." I had not suspected it; however obvious it may appear now to those who read this tale, the possibility that she had been masquerading in an officer's uniform, indulging in warlike deeds, had never once occurred to me. She was so thoroughly feminine that her acknowledgment came as a distinct shock.
If he had yielded for a moment before the face of reality, he soon recovered himself, turned away from the sight, and went back to his masquerading. She lacked the power to lead him from it, and again she feared that she lacked the power because her will was not sincere and single.
"I don't know how it can all be," said Sophia considering, "but I'm sure there's a great deal of good in her." At this, further silence, even out of deference to her, seemed to him inadequate. "I don't pretend to know how it can be; how she got here, or what she has been doing here, dressed in silk finery, or what she may have been masquerading with matches in the old house over there for.
Sometimes at night he dreamt that she was 'the wile-weaving Daughter of high Zeus' in person, bent on tormenting him for his sins against her beauty in his art the implacable Aphrodite herself indeed. He knew that he loved the masquerading creature wherever he found her, whether with blue eyes, black eyes, or brown; whether presenting herself as tall, fragile, or plump.
The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship. The scenic setting is in this instance incomparably fine.
"Your real face the one I used to know it's just underneath the one you're masquerading in to-night. You ought to have changed it more if you wanted a disguise." "Twenty years!" said Mr. Kinney. "It makes some difference in faces, but more in behaviour!" "It does so!" his friend agreed with explosive emphasis. "My own behaviour began to be different about that long ago quite suddenly."
In some of the sports the Portuguese element is visible, in others the Indian, but it must be recollected that masquerading, recitative singing, and so forth, are common originally to both peoples. A large number of men and boys disguise themselves to represent different grotesque figures, animals, or persons. Two or three dress themselves up as giants, with the help of a tall framework.
Are you mad, Rodrigo? You heard no single word that sinned against the Faith." "Did I not? I heard treason enough to." "No, nor treason either. You heard honourable, upright men considering measures of defence against oppression, injustice, and evil acquisitiveness masquerading in the holy garments of religion." He stared askance at her for a moment, then his full lips curled into a sneer.
You thought Miss Redmond was the princess masquerading as an opera singer." "Her Highness has always been admired as a singer!" cut in Chatelard. "No doubt! And even you were deceived!" Aleck laughed in derision. "But when you take so serious a step as an abduction, my dear man, be sure you get hold of the right victim."
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