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Because her public career ended in a catastrophe, popular opinion, which readily follows success, considers as merely abortive that long career during which her hand sustained upon the brow of a French prince the tottering crown against which the arms of Europe, the distrust of Spain, and the discouragement of France vied in conspiring.
At absolutely every entrance into the Imperial city there were troops of one nationality or another: American, British, French, German, Japanese, and others all looking jealously at every passer-by, and holding so tight to their precious gates, that it appeared as if all the world was conspiring to wrest them from their grasp.
"Conspiring so far as YOU were concerned to what end?" "Why, to the obvious end of getting the Prince a wife at Maggie's expense. And then to that of getting Charlotte a husband at Mr. Verver's." "Of rendering friendly services, yes which have produced, as it turns out, complications. But from the moment you didn't do it FOR the complications, why shouldn't you have rendered them?"
At last the doctor hit upon the expedient of transferring me to a room more remote from my inspiring, and, I may say, conspiring, companion. Talking to each other ceased to be the easy pastime it had been; so we gradually lapsed into a comparative silence which must have proved a boon to our ward-mates.
"Conspiring so far as YOU were concerned to what end?" "Why, to the obvious end of getting the Prince a wife at Maggie's expense. And then to that of getting Charlotte a husband at Mr. Verver's." "Of rendering friendly services, yes which have produced, as it turns out, complications. But from the moment you didn't do it FOR the complications, why shouldn't you have rendered them?"
Drums beat to arms; the Lepelletier section declaimed against the despotism of the convention, against the return of the Reign of Terror, and during the whole of the 12th prepared the other sections for the contest. In the evening, the convention, scarcely less agitated, decided on taking the initiative, by surrounding the conspiring section, and terminating the crisis by disarming it.
He lifted his arms to heaven, calling upon the high gods for pity; then, with a sudden turn of fury, ran to the back of the stage and came mincing forward evidently intending saturnine mimicry, repeating the ingenue's speech in a mocking falsetto: "Now what are you two good people conspiring about?"
Do you realize that they had planted an infernal machine, a dynamite bomb, in that room? And all the world was to read in the newspapers this morning that you had been conspiring to blow up somebody!" Said Carpenter: "Would it have been the first time that I have been lied about?" "Of course," I argued, "I know what I have done " "You can have no idea what you have done. You are too ignorant."
So that although these her companions sought to avenge their wrongs by conspiring against her, they were soon defeated in the attempt, and remained in a worse plight than before, since they too became subjects and no longer associates.
Peter's execution; when sculptors, painters, medallists, goldsmiths, workers in glass and enamel, and engravers of precious stones all began to reproduce in Rome the likeness of the apostle at the beginning of the second century, and continued to do so till the fall of the Empire must we consider them as laboring under a delusion, or conspiring in the commission of a gigantic fraud?
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