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I then called to Officer Cassidy for assistance. We pinched arrested um, sorr." The captain looked at Archie. It seemed to Archie that he looked at him coldly and with contempt. "Who is he?" "The Master-Mind, sorr." "The what?" "The accused, sorr. The man that's wanted." "You may want him. I don't," said the captain. Archie, though relieved, thought he might have put it more nicely.
The full extent of his plans were really never known, and the historian is in doubt whether he intended a severance of the Union, or an invasion of Mexico. Herman Blennerhassett, an excellent Irish gentleman, became his ally and suffered ruin with Burr. Burr was arrested and tried, but was found not guilty.
He preferred failure and death to his life at the mission, and he knew his present life as a fugitive could not last; he would certainly be captured sooner or later. He walked slowly on. Had not he been so absorbed in thought of the crisis of his life, on the brink of which he stood, the indications of something unusual and foreboding would have arrested his attention.
"They are all very happily engaged, and Madame von Marwitz and I will look at the photographs in perfect peace." Something in these words and in the manner with which her guardian received them, with a deepening of her long, steady glance, arrested Karen's departure. She stood above them, half confident, yet half hesitating.
The messenger was surprised at my ignorance and informed me that the Spanish ambassador was arrested. As soon as I had eaten a morsel, I quitted my company, and hastened to the Palais Royal, where I learnt from M. le Duc d'Orleans all that I have just related. Our conversation took up time, and, when it was over, I went away to the Tuileries.
"Look here, McLean, there's something I want to tell you " "Wait a minute now," said McLean quietly. "I want you to hear this.... It was a fire in the palace of your friend, Hamdi Bey." He had Jack's attention now he was fairly conscious of arrested breath.
Giovanni's attention was arrested by the parchment on which the principal deed was executed, and he began to read the agreement with more care than he had bestowed upon the other papers. He understood Latin well enough, but the crabbed characters puzzled him from time to time. He read the last words on the first page without thinking very much of what they meant.
The story of this prisoner seems to be particularly sad. He was a chorister or sacristan in a Roman Catholic church, with several others, and was arrested, with his companions, by the civil guard, charged with "sacrilege."
There is another big library up in the house on the hill in fact, there are books upon books all over the home. And wherever they are, those books are read. As one is about to pass out of the library attention is arrested by an incongruity in the form of a cot, which stands in an alcove near the door.
We could see that he was heaving badly, and was a very sick animal. His gaze was fixed on the howling dogs. Young and I ran in close and shot boldly at his swaying body. Our arrows slipped through him like magic. One was arrested in its course as it buried itself in his shoulder.
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