He did not know, to be sure, that I had overheard his council from the apple barrel, and yet I had by this time taken such a horror of his cruelty,
duplicity, and power that I could scarce conceal a shudder when he laid his hand upon my arm.
'You answer my questions - before you leave this spot I will know what you mean by this perfidious
duplicity!'
She suddenly felt ashamed of her
duplicity, but even more she dreaded how he might meet her.
That was a feeble evasion, but Godfrey was not fond of lying, and, not being sufficiently aware that no sort of
duplicity can long flourish without the help of vocal falsehoods, he was quite unprepared with invented motives.
If I were not afraid of judging harshly, I should be almost tempted to say that there is a strong appearance of
duplicity in all this.
The marquise perceived, with sorrow rather than indignation, that the king was an accomplice in the plot which betrayed the
duplicity of Louis XIII.
She has a great charm; a little artificial, a little fatigued, with a little suggestion of hidden things in her life; but I have always been sensitive to the charm of fatigue, of
duplicity.
The bank had continued to take in money for a whole day after its failure was inevitable; and as many of its clients belonged to one or another of the ruling clans, Beaufort's
duplicity seemed doubly cynical.
What has she given you?" he continued hurriedly, evidently no longer trying to show the advantages of peace and discuss its possibility, but only to prove his own rectitude and power and Alexander's errors and
duplicity.
Although her
duplicity in the affair of the house had exceeded what he knew, and had really hindered the Plymdales from knowing of it, she had no consciousness that her action could rightly be called false.
Achmet Zek would never permit the wealth that he had discovered to slip through his fingers, nor would he forgive the
duplicity of a lieutenant who had gained possession of such a treasure without offering to share it with his chief.
This trick did not suggest
duplicity or secretiveness, but merely long habit, as with the horse.