Crossword-Solution: COUNTERPLOTTING 15 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

You shall come into the study; papa will be away all the morning, and I will have the fire kept up there,--and mamma shall never come near you." All this, and a thousand times more of plotting and counterplotting, was going on among four children and their elders in a comfortable, free-and-easy seeming household in Washington, as the boys and girls, young men and young women were in the last agonies of making ready for Christmas.

Add to these a little love and counterplotting, and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars—dollars warmed no more by the torrid sun than by the hot palms of the scouts of Fortune—and, after all, here seems to be Life, itself, with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses.

Time after time, then, has the precious waistband or girdle, studded and buckled and placed for brave outward show, practically worked itself, and in spite of desperate remonstrance, or in other words essential counterplotting, to a point perilously near the knees--perilously I mean for the freedom of these parts.

There followed a long contest, in which there was plotting and counterplotting on one side and on the other, and manoeuvres without end.

Counterplotting.] Defn: To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.