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"Satan will strike his master-stroke presently," cried some, "because he knoweth that his time is short. All our godly pastors are to be dragged to prison. We shall see them at a Smithfield fire in King street."
This agreement, which was to remain in force for seventeen years, was a master-stroke of diplomacy on the part of the Bell Company. It was the Magna Charta of the telephone. It transformed a giant competitor into a friend. It added to the Bell System fifty-six thousand telephones in fifty-five cities.
The master-stroke of Lewis roused Marlborough at the opening of 1704 to a master-stroke in return; but the secrecy and boldness of the Duke's plans deceived both his enemies and his allies. The French army in Flanders saw in his march from the Netherlands upon Maintz only a design to transfer the war into Elsass.
Ah! that one could be as good a man of the world in practice as one is in theory! my master-stroke of policy at that moment would evidently have been this: I should have gone to the Regent and made out a story similar to the real one, but with this difference, all the ridicule of the situation should have fallen upon me, and the little Dubois should have been elevated on a pinnacle of respectable appearances!
Sighting Banneker at luncheon a few days later, Horace Vanney went so far as to cross the room to greet and congratulate him. "A master-stroke," he said, pressing Banneker's hand with his soft palm. "We're glad to have you with us. Won't you call me up and lunch with me soon?" At The Retreat, after polo, that Saturday, the senior Masters met Banneker face to face in a hallway, and held him up.
But she brought you on the scene. Their attention was called to you, she led them to redouble their pursuit, she was in despair over you, she pitied you, she consoled you Ah! how happy is a clever woman when in such a game as this she professes to stake nothing of her own! But yet, is this true happiness?" This last phrase, accompanied by a significant sigh, was a master-stroke.
"But that's no use for to-night, and Groombridge will be simply furious if I ask him to interfere without telling him how much it comes to. Billy won't say a word." "I think," said Rose very slowly, "that if we all go to bed now, we shall have some bright idea in the morning." Before this master-stroke of suggestion had reached Lady Groombridge's brain, a very low voice came from the window.
On the back of this well-worn letter was a pencil-scrawl, which, although I read it last, I present first to my reader, that he may trace link by link the chain of villainy that bound together my two oppressors. It was in the small, clear calligraphy of Basil Bainrothe, before described; characterized, I believe, as a back-hand and thus it ran: "You are right it was a master-stroke!
The King of the Mountains, who had never known fear, was gripped by a cold chill. He had delivered his master-stroke and it had failed. "We'll wait, Sylvia," he said, gloomily. "Of course a woman's wish in such a matter as this is law, and more than law." "Oh, daddy, don't you see how it is?" she cried, moved by his tone. "I'm but twenty-two. I don't want to marry just yet.
He was, however, neither wanting in intelligence nor finesse, nor even a certain kind of eloquence; and the master-stroke of De Retz's address was to have contrived, in furtherance of the object of his designs, to set Gaston with the Fronde against the Princes, and afterwards for the Princes against Mazarin.