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There is also a second piece of theatrical effect not inferior to the first, where Claudio, now convinced of his error, and in obedience to the penance laid on his fault, thinking to give his hand to a relation of his injured bride, whom he supposes dead, discovers on her unmasking, Hero herself.
They hastened to her Cynthia flushed at the thought that she might be recalled to London which she would not regret, since a visit to the dentist to-day is better than the toothache all next week and Medenham steeled himself against imminent unmasking. But Mrs. Devar's main business in life was self. "I have just heard from James," she cooed.
She turned upon him with a pitiless mockery which, I see now, must have left in his mind the conviction that she had been but making game of him; while I never doubted myself the dupe. Not once had she received me as I now saw her: though the night was warm, her deshabille was yet a somewhat prodigal unmasking of her beauty to the moon!
Preferably some innocent victim of unjust suspicion; somebody who could best clear himself by unmasking the real villain.... For "villain," Rand mentally substituted "public benefactor." He was running over a list of possible suspects as he entered Rosemont.
And if he besought Jean to lead him to Maurice d'Escorval, it was because he hoped to find Marie-Anne not far off, and to say to her: "Appearances were against me, but I am innocent; and I have proved it by unmasking the real culprit." It was to Marie-Anne that he wished this famous letter to be given, thinking that she, at least, could not fail to be surprised at his generosity.
At length, yielding rather to his unusual impatience than taking counsel from his knowledge, he determined to bring matters to an issue, by unmasking his force, and proceeding cautiously, but steadily, up the stream.
Once having shone, she could not be extinguished or hidden under a bushel; for, being of rank and highly connected through mother as well as father, and playing her cards with great wit and skill, she could not be thrust aside. At her first hunt ball she set aflame every male breast in the shire, unmasking such a battery of charms as no man could withstand the fire of.
There is a certain force, therefore, in the taunt that Pascal, in “unmasking the duplicity of the Jesuits, did not hesitate to imitate it.” His statements are not beyond the licence accorded to those who would drive an enemy off the scent, and shelter themselves within an anonymity which they have chosen to assume; but they are none the less artful and misleading.
The unmasking of a deception made even truth suspicious to him, because he had unfortunately discovered truth by false reasoning. "This imaginary triumph pleased him in proportion to the magnitude of the oppression from which it seemed to deliver him. From this instant there arose in his mind a scepticism which did not spare even the most sacred objects.
It was just twenty-four hours since Carrington had looked upon such another night but this was a different world the gray fog was unmasking a world of hopes, and dreams, and rich content. Then the thought of Norton poor Norton who had had his world, too, of hopes and dreams and rich content The calm of a highly domestic existence had resumed its interrupted sway on the raft. Mr.
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