It ought to be a popular bill, too," Mr. Schemer was saying, with a smile of ironic appreciation at the thought of demagogues advocating it.
They're at the mercy of any political schemer who thinks it worth his while to fool 'em.
He, schemer as he was, and skilled as he dreamed himself to be in the secrets of men and women, did not understand one tithe of Clara Kingscott's nature.
This secret and sinister schemer hid his purpose, it now appears, in a cloak of seeming benevolence.
But there must have been some other good reason why that schemer wanted to find Uncle Felix.
God help her to be taking you for a wonder, and you a little schemer making up the story you destroyed your da.
But with all the will in the world this schemer was not clever enough to deal with the evidence he had accumulated.
The man's wild speech and rude song were unintelligible to his stupid, drink-bemused audience; but the keen brain of the schemer lurking near the door picked up their sense at once.
Bowing to Stillwell, the defeated schemer said, "Before we begin, I wish a word with you in private.
The searchlight of his mind was turned only on the Western conspirators, and he feared no villainy in the world save the Detroit schemer who had robbed him of his birthright.
Father says he's the deepest and cleverestschemer that ever was!
Oom Paul himself, and another lad up at Mafeking, by name Baden-Powell, who would even give that old crafty schemer a start, and lick him easily.
Even the cleverest and most subtle schemermay have his delicate machinery broken to pieces by a chance bit of mere dust getting into it at an unexpected turn of the wheels.
And last--in all such schemes as Pratt's, the schemer invariably forgets something.
He began to understand that in some manner this inscrutible schemer had contrived to overreach him.
Afar off glittered the splendid goal--the undisputed possession of the late John Haygarth's hundred thousand pounds; but between the schemer and that chief end and aim of all his plottings what a sea of troubles!
The letters in question might relate to some other estate than that of John Haygarth, for it was quite possible that the schemer of Gray's Inn had other irons in the fire.
With an exercise of restraint and patience highly commendable, the schemer sat and smoked until the clock struck eleven.
White and trembling, the guilty schemer turned to the window and grasped Jem's arm.
The next train did not start for three hours, and after a few moments' reflection the schemer turned his horse's head toward Penruddie.
Then a sudden doubt came to her mind, for like every schemer and dishonest person this lady was quick to perceive where this plan might break down.
But he was not thinking of his late enemy; he was thinking of the arch-schemer hired by the man in England who should have been as a father to our hero.
The inherent superiority of the profound young schemer became instantly apparent over the courage of Peschiera and the practised wit of the baron.
So his slight thin fingers dropped the extinguisher on the candle, and the prosperous Schemer laid himself down to rest in the dark.
The Sage was as supple to the Schemer as the Clairvoyant is to the Mesmerist; and the lean slight fingers of Randal actually dictated almost the very words that Riccabocca wrote to his child and her hostess.
The schemer at once discarded from his objects all further aim on Violante; either she would be poor, and he would not have her; or she would be rich, and her father would give her to another.
I do, sir," Skinner replied, and looked Cappy in the eye so fiercely that the old schemer quailed.
And in order that Cappy should realize whom he was meeting Matt bumped into the schemer and then begged his pardon profusely.
No; John Saltram could scarcely hope to carry her off by a coup-de-main, in the face of the artful schemer who had evidently obtained so strong an influence over her.
The old schemer sat alone in his favorite den in rear of the shop.
Yes," the satisfied schemer concluded, "the old man's game is the bauble title.
And as the enraged schemer finished the last of a dozen cigars and took a pull at his pocket flask, he disposed himself to sleep, grumbling.
And yet a graceful shade of dignified reserve lent color to his rumored advancement, and the schemer leaned over the writing table with quite a foreign-office air as he indited his diplomatic note of arrival to his destined prey.
The acute schemer decided not to risk any suspicions by marketing his own jewels.
The astonished schemer was in a maze as he dashed away to the Calcutta Club to meet General Abercromby.
With a glance of veiled tenderness, the acute schemer took his fair dupe out upon the lake, while Euphrosyne directed the slow grinding of the mills of the gods.
I see a year's assured comfort before me, for I can play the part of the Saxon troops at Leipzig," the schemer joyously ruminated.
All the plotting of the Regency had fallen to pieces with the fall of the greatest schemer of them all, whom the Paris government fatuously attempted to hookwink.
And who shall say what the schemer of the Tuileries thought of it all behind that pleasant smile, those dull and sphinx-like eyes?
But before he dies he has the satisfaction of seeing the late repentance and regret of every enemy, whether secret schemer or open foe.
Braccio is the chief schemer against Luria, and he schemes, not from any real ill-will, but from the diplomatic distrust of a too cautious and too suspicious patriot.
Sometimes he weaves so tangled a web that he falls into it himself, and one of the stock situations in humor, the novel and the stage is where the cunning schemer falls into the pit he has dug for others.
They who have suffered through the schemer grow to suspect their fellows under any guise.
She little knew that she was only playing into the hands of a deeper and more accomplished schemer than herself.
Whatever theschemer bade him do, he did without shame or scruple.
