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His account against the assassins of Caylus was being slowly paid; but never had any item of that account been annulled with less regret. The others Staupitz, Saldagno, Pinto, and the rest had been ruffianly creatures enough, but there was a kind of honesty, a measure of courage in their ruffianism.
We must not shrink from stern necessities laid upon us. But let us not give the enemy an excuse to brand us as assassins in the time to come." "God damn it, man, you speak to me as if you thought me a hired murderer. I take such language from no man living, and from you no more than another, James Hope. You shall answer for your words and your insinuations." Donald stood up as he spoke.
For some days Avignon had its assassins, as Marseilles had had them, and as Nimes was about to have them; for some days all Avignon shuddered at the names of five men Pointu, Farges, Roquefort, Naudaud, and Magnan. Pointu was a perfect type of the men of the South, olive-skinned and eagle-eyed, with a hook nose, and teeth of ivory.
"This is true," assented Gigi, "I have seen several, before this one." "This one is the eternal father of all assassins," growled Toto. "He talked of walling me up alive." "That was only a joke, to frighten you into holding your tongue," said Gigi. "And you did." "A fine joke!
For this crime, in which five assassins and one accomplice shared, seven individuals, within the space of four years, mounted the steps of the guillotine. Justice, therefore, killed one man too many: her sword fell upon one who was innocent; nor could he have been one of these six individuals, all of whom confessed their crime.
In Tampa, Florida, in Columbus, Ohio, in Birmingham, Alabama, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the mining districts of West Virginia, and in innumerable other places many workingmen have been murdered, not by officers of the law, but by privately paid assassins.
"But I ask your forgiveness, for I assure you that when I invited your father up from Woodthorpe I had no idea whatever of what those assassins intended." "Benton is already under arrest for another affair," broke in The Sparrow quietly. "I heard so from London yesterday." "Ah! And I hope that Howell will also be punished for his crime," the handsome woman cried.
They accordingly surrounded Leander, who, setting his back to a tree, behaved with so much bravery, that he laid them all dead at his feet. Furibon, believing him by this time slain, rode eagerly up to the spot. When Leander saw him, he advanced to meet him. "Sir," said he, "if it was by your order that these assassins came to kill me, I am sorry I made any defence."
The French ministry did not entirely depend upon the fortune of the war for the execution of their revenge against king William, They likewise employed assassins to deprive him of life in the most treacherous manner.
Louis, men of the Lake of Two Mountains, Hurons, Abenakis, Iroquois of La Présentation, Nipissings, Algonquins, and Ottawas, I invite you all by this belt of wampum to join your French father and help him to crush the assassins. Take this hatchet, and with it two barrels of wine for a feast." Both hatchet and wine were cheerfully accepted.
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