"Masquerader" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Apple of Eden"—Dodd, Mead & Co.—under a nom de plume, is largely, if not wholly, a commercial question. Those who have shown a disposition to belittle it on account of the interesting but irrelevant fact that he is the husband of the author of "The Masquerader," have exhibited small powers of discrimination and missed an opportunity to do justice to a remarkable book, ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... of pure mirth, which was dreadful torment to the jealous masquerader. She departed, leaving the cook a prey to savage resolve. "Well," thought Eliza, "if the supper is bad enough I guess she'll just have to come down and help me. Thank goodness Blair and Carter are both coming; they'll cut each other's throats, and perhaps the stuffed eggs will win ...
— Kathleen • Christopher Morley
... the neighboring women who likewise remembered Sarah Honey—the masquerader often spoke in a way to reduce to a minimum any suspicion that she was not the rightful Ida May. Even a visit from Annabell Coffin—"she who was a Cuttle"—went off without a remark being made which would yield a ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... between the young girls, before they parted, that the arrival should not take place until evening, when there would be the advantage of gas-light in concealing the personality of the masquerader,—and that Aunt Martha, who had already proved herself too firm and consistent a friend to her niece, to be played falsely with in the matter, should be made acquainted with the whole arrangement, ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
... above yon clump of firs, with its bell furniture; he seems pondering on the aphorisms of Confucius, regardless of that booby faced conservatory, whose bald, rounded pate glitters in the sun. Ah! what have we here; a spruce masquerader in yellow straw hat, trying to look rural with as much success as a reed thatched summer house. Stand in this quiet nook a few hours, and give us the shadow of your ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 385, Saturday, August 15, 1829. • Various
... right now unless it has a savour of blue mould or Japan. Wonderful people, the Japanese, to have discovered the Jolly Hotei. And here is Hotei's wife, the goddess-queen Yoka herself—the real masquerader behind that mystic veil which has so enveloped and bemuddled the mind of poor Wilderspin. She is to figure in the first number ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... masquerader, with an assumed abstraction, inwardly congratulating himself upon having hit upon a restaurant where the real Maitland was evidently known. There were few circumstances which he could not turn to profit, fewer ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... King fiercely. "This man can be no ambassador. He is a marauder, a masquerader, who came to my court ...
— The King's Esquires - The Jewel of France • George Manville Fenn
... her throat uplifted, and went courageous and smiling on her way. The marquis had adapted himself to the court requirements of the Empire. Noble gentleman of another period, he stalked a piteous masquerader where he ...
— Lazarre • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... Scarlatti. One night at a masked ball, given by a nobleman, Handel was present in disguise. He sat at the harpsichord, and astonished the company with his playing; but no one could tell who it was that ravished the ears of the assembly. Presently another masquerader came into the room, walked up to the instrument, and called out: "It is either the devil or the Saxon!" This was Scarlatti, who afterward had with Handel, in Florence and Rome, friendly contests of skill, in which it seemed difficult to decide which was victor. To satisfy the Venetian public, Handel ...
— The Great German Composers • George T. Ferris |
