The pretender is on the offensive, challenging attention: the dissembler is on his defence against notice.
The dissembler of a secret wishes for obscurity and silence: he wants to have the eyes of men turned away from him and their curiosity unroused.
His ambition is to appear out of the ordinary, being really quite within common lines: the dissembler is in some respect beyond the ordinary, but wishes not to show himself otherwise than as an ordinary mortal with ordinary knowledge.
There were not wanting spies to carry this to Melville, and, aware of the truth, he was curious to mark the official look which the great dissembler wore the next morning.
This being settled, this extraordinary royal dissembler set out to Royston to hunt, and took Somerset with him, showing him all his old marks of fondness.
He was then in Clarendon's eyes preeminently a dissembler--'the greatest dissembler living'.
The bishop assured himself that the strongly built upright man before him was bound and could not hurt him; and he said to the attendants, "Go forth outside the door and leave this dissemblerwith me.
And bid my brother act warily and proceed secretly, require him to treat this dissembleras what he is--a personator of a man who is on sure warrant dead, slain by the judgment of God.
But when this craftie dissembler Peter Landoise, which was no wilier than an old fox, perceiued that the earle was departed (thinking that to be true that he imagined) Lord how currors ran into euerie coast!
Gain or glory is the remote end of the dissembler as also of the liar.
He was--as Mr. Caryll had remarked on the first occasion that they met--the worst dissembler that ever set hand to a conspiracy.
You hurried away from me, dissembler as you were, to steal to this lonely place at midnight, to fling yourself into his arms.
Was he then to hark back to his first conviction and believe Marie guilty, a dissembler like her accomplice, a dissembler like Florence?
