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Her words always glanced off from direct personal issues, as subtlely and successfully as if she had been a practised diplomatist. Sometimes these perpetual evadings and non-committals seemed to Dr. Macgowan like art; but they were really the very simplicity of absolute unselfishness; and, gradually, as he came to perceive and understand this, he came to have a reverence for Hetty.
Yet an unexplained element did remain. Subtlely, but perceptibly, it permeated both her father's and Henrietta's speech and bearing. She, Damaris, was always conscious of a certain constraint beneath their calm and apparently easy talk. Was their relation one of friendship or of covert enmity? Or did these, just perceptible, peculiarities of it betoken something deeper and closer still?
Then Decius thought what he should do with them, and, as our Lord would, he inclosed the mouth of the cave wherein they were with stones, to the end that they should die therein for hunger and fault of meat. Then the ministers and two Christian men, Theodorus and Rufinus, wrote their martyrdom and laid it subtlely among the stones.
She walked about for a moment or two in order the more thoroughly to show off her paces, and as she walked she smiled subtlely, closed her eyes demurely and managed her skirts with great dexterity. Then she posted herself in front of him again. "I guess I've hit it, eh?" "Oh, thoroughly," he stammered with a broken voice and a troubled expression. "I tell you I've got hold of the honest woman!
You can insinuate it so subtlely that he will never suspect the suggestion came from you. I say you can do this, and you must do it.
And verily, it were time that I went away; and the wanderer's shadow and the longest tedium and the stillest hour have all said unto me: "It is the highest time!" The word blew to me through the keyhole and said "Come!" The door sprang subtlely open unto me, and said "Go!"
So that I wish my father to make a will leaving the North End Works to me exclusively to me alone as the one head." "I think if I dared to suggest such a thing to him, he would take off my head!" said Rose, with grim humor. "I think he would if you should do so suddenly or clumsily. But you must insinuate the idea very slowly and subtlely.
She had gone about it so subtlely that he had found himself manacled almost before he knew that the manacles were there. He had fallen into the trap of an hypothesis, and now felt that the preliminary conditions on which he had seemed to depend could never avail him. He did not mean to marry Guss Mildmay. He did not suppose that she thought he meant to marry her.
He deserved his nickname, Old Subtlely, for he had a clear insight into the real issues from the very beginning of the great quarrel: he headed in Oxfordshire the resistance to the levying of Ship-money, and was the champion of the Independents, the most determined of the king's opponents.
These know how, very subtlely, many times, to fatten their carkasses, with meat and drink out of the Mistresses Cellars and Butteries; keeping alwaies a fair correspondence with the theevish Maids, which know many tricks and waies how to convey it unto them; and scold and brawl against those whose stoln meat and drink they thus idly and basely convey away.
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