défiance, not ' défiance

1. 24. à moins que je ne prévoie, 'Provided I don't foresee this forethought (on your part) and foil it by a double reckoning,' i.e. by being what I seem to be. Ne is used without pas after a clause introduced by the conjunctions à f?ioins que..., de crainte {peur) que..., nonpas que..., depuis que and the phrase il y a... que.