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The throat was cut from ear to ear, dividing the windpipe, the carotid arteries and jugular veins on both sides; and so strong had been the hand of the assassin, and so keen the weapon, that the neck was severed quite to the back bone.
Powers has been placed by his friends has of course won him many enemies. Bold, sincere, working enemies are highly useful in developing an artist's character, especially if he be a law-abiding follower of the art. But enemies must be dealers of fair blows, wagers of honorable warfare; no assassin is worthy of the name of enemy.
That assassin, that brute began, but hesitated. Ah, Hector has not hesitated! Seeing that he would in any case possess myself, would carry me away, I yielded, but with honor and grace, Madame. As between Monsieur Dunwodee and Hector il y a une difference, Madame!" "Je crois qu' oui, Jeanne Je le crois! But it comes to the same thing, eh? You forsake me?"
Is not the British Consul in Tripoli better than a Shânbah bandit? better than an assassin who cuts the throats of the Faithful? Do not all the people speak well of our Consul?" The Taleb. "I know it; he's very good." I. "But you can't change the religion of some people though you kill them.
"You mean Alfonso Diaz, who had his brother murdered by a hired assassin because he abandoned the holy Church and accepted the Lutheran religion," said the Queen sorrowfully. "Malvenda was just telling me " "He was the instigator of the crime," interrupted the Emperor. "Now he rejoices in it as a deed well pleasing to God, and many thousands, I know, agree with him.
But, alas! he was soon assassinated by one of his own officers before he could call for help, and the assassin succeeded him. In those days assassination and inauguration seemed to go hand-in-hand. After Constantius, who died 306 A.D., came Constantine the Great, his son by a British princess.
The sound of the organ brought tears into his eyes he loved the organ, and he was not to be allowed to listen to it! At last came the end; the sounds of the choir receded, and the assassin moved over to a strategic position. And then came the first of the congregation of all persons, the Olympian Mr. Curtis! "Will you take one of these, sir?" said Samuel, with his heart in his throat. And Mr.
"Can you not find some excuse for my vexation, knowing, as you do that the wretch was a vile assassin a man whose hands have been imbrued in the blood of my own father?" "Was he not acquitted of the charge?" "He was but only from lack of evidence to convict; yet, although acquitted by the law, not surer is fate than that he is an assassin."
"In answering a question as to whom Caffie had received that day, the concierge named your brother. But as this visit took place between three and half-past, and the crime was certainly committed between five and half-past, no one can accuse your brother of being the assassin, since he left before Caffie lighted his lamp.
Cornelia, the wife of Livius Drusus, lost by the hands of an unknown assassin a young son of great distinction, who was treading in the footsteps of the Gracchi, and was murdered in his own house just when he had so many bills half-way through the process of becoming law: nevertheless she bore the untimely and unavenged death of her son with as lofty a spirit as he had shown in carrying his laws.
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