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Rage and despair will wring from me the dark secret that my father is an assassin! The son will deliver the parent into the hands of the executioner. This is a moment of extreme danger, and extreme danger alone could prompt my love to take so daring a leap! Hear me, Louisa! A thought, vast and immeasurable as my love, has arisen in my soul Thou, Louisa, and I, and Love!
"The assassin must have been concealed in the bedroom, and after Susan ascended the stairs to let Mr. Clancy out, he must have stolen into the sitting-room and have killed the old lady before she could even rise. Later on, the heat of the room, warping the wood round the ivory button, may have caused it to slip out, and thus the bell would have rung.
She had left the house where she was employed that morning, to transact some errand connected with her work in the town; she must have been followed, and dogged on her way back through solitary wood-paths, for some of the wood-rangers belonging to the great house had found her lying there, stabbed to death, but not dead; with the poniard again plunged through the fatal writing, once more; but this time with the word "un" underlined, so as to show that the assassin was aware of his previous mistake.
"Yes, I am ready to take my oath that this wretch is the vile tool of people who hate or fear Daniel Champcey; who are deeply interested in his death; and who, being too cowardly to do their own business, are rich enough to hire an assassin." The lieutenant was evidently unable to follow. "Still, doctor," he objected, "but just now you insisted" "Upon a diametrically opposite doctrine; eh?"
Garfield was elected, receiving 214 electoral votes against 155 for Hancock. Hancock carried every southern State; Garfield every northern State except New Jersey, Nevada, and California. President Garfield had hardly entered upon his high duties when he was cut down by the hand of an assassin.
Then, again, the horror experienced by the assassin afterwards! So far as it went, it was as grand a reprehension of all murderers as hand could well have penned or tongue have uttered. It had about it something of the articulation of an avenging voice not against Sikes only, but against all who ever outraged, or ever dreamt of outraging, the sanctity of human life.
Verkan Vall stooped and wiped the knife on the dead man's clothes another Khanga pirate gesture and then returned it to Olirzon. "Nice weapon, Olirzon," he said. "It fitted my hand as though I'd been born holding it." "You used it as though you had, Lord Virzal," the Assassin replied. "Only eight seconds from the time you closed with him."
"As rogues of note in former days who had some wicked work to perform, an enemy to be put out of the way, a quantity of false coin to be passed, a lie to be told or a murder to be done employed a professional perjurer or assassin to do the work, which they were themselves too notorious or too cowardly to execute: our notorious contemporary, the Day, engages smashers out of doors to utter forgeries against individuals, and calls in auxiliary cut-throats to murder the reputation of those who offend him.
They were advanced a good way into the fields, when the duke, making efforts for his liberty, threw himself to the ground, and brought down with him the assassin to whom he was fastened. They were struggling together in the mire, when Ormond's servants, whom the alarm had reached, came and saved him.
But if all my actions are linked together, are conditional upon one another, dependent on one another, if I have committed murder it is because I am an assassin at every moment of my life or nearly so, and then, oh! how responsible I am! They find him all the more culpable if he has always shown bad instincts.
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