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And as the public comes to believe instead that Clinton's flexibility and artifice led to the Wye agreement, the agreement's antagonists--or even its reluctant signers--will be tempted to demand that the terms be revised, arguing that Clinton deceived them and figuring that he will bend under pressure.
One of Grant's assistants got wind of the scheme, and asked Assistant Secretary of War Charles Dana to tell Grant "how he is being deceived by one to whom he has granted various privileges and favors."
She's not deceived by her father's lies, as she makes clear in lots of little sarcastic asides.
Only in the annotation does Gibbon add, "The world has laughed at the credulity of Marcus; but Madam Dacier assures us (and we may credit a lady) that the husband will always be deceived, if the wife condescends to dissemble."
Lest one might be deceived into taking the preceding to be a pleasantry, even as late as 1909 (at seventy-four), Skeat's contempt for those who knew less than he was undiminished: