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1 " It is only likely frauds that are detected. "
― Anthony Hope , Rupert of Hentzau
2 " What more passed between them I do not know. I think that the Queen told my wife more, but women will sometimes keep women’s secrets even from their husbands; though they love us, yet we are always in some sort the common enemy, against whom they join hands. "
3 " Helga never will admit that she is clever, yet I find she discovers from me what she wants to know, and I suspect hides successfully the small matters of which she in her wifely discretion deems I had best remain ignorant. Being thus able to manage me, she was equal to coping with the butler. "
4 " Rudolf was well-nigh convinced that the man had been on his track: he would make certainty surer. The bold game was always his choice and his delight; this trait he shared with Rupert of Hentzau, and hence arose, I think, the strange secret inclination he had for his unscrupulous opponent. "
5 " And the Queen of Ruritania, James?’‘Do not misunderstand me, sir. They could be secretly married — I should say re-married.’‘Yes, certainly, re-married.’‘By a trustworthy priest.’‘You mean an untrustworthy priest? "
6 " Well, I take it that when a man comes to die, love is more to him than a kingdom; it may be, if we could see truly, that it is more to him even while he lives. "