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Renine made her sniff at a bottle of salts; and when she had quite recovered her composure, he said, while observing her attentively: "So you think that there is some connection between the murder and the plot which we were trying to frustrate?" "Certainly," said she, astonished at the question.
Divers incidents retarded for a whole year the outburst of this family plot, and of the war of which it was the precursor.
At my request the author, Elsie Brown, contributed it to this volume. A Shady Plot So I sat down to write a ghost story. Jenkins was responsible. "Hallock," he had said to me, "give us another on the supernatural this time. Something to give 'em the horrors; that's what the public wants, and your ghosts are live propositions."
In the course of time, Dinias and Aristoteles the logician killed Abantidas, who used to be present in the marketplace at their discussions, and to make one in them; till they, taking the occasion, insensibly accustomed him to the practice, and so had opportunity to contrive and execute a plot against him.
Of course the Spanish politicians vied with each other in expressions of horror and indignation at the Plot, and the wicked contrivers thereof, and suggested to Cornwallis that the King of France was probably at the bottom of it.
She gave a rapid account of their visit to the house, of its complete desertion of the strange behaviour of the niece and of the growing alarm in her own mind. "There's something there's some plot. Perhaps that woman's in it. Perhaps Gertrude's got hold of her or Miss Andrews. Anyway, if that house can be left quite alone ever they'll get at it that I'm sure of. Why did she take the children away?
It was certainly the best novel I had as yet written. The plot is not so good as that of the Macdermots; nor are there any characters in the book equal to those of Mrs. Proudie and the Warden; but the work has a more continued interest, and contains the first well-described love-scene that I ever wrote.
Xerxes was highly delighted with this letter, and sent a reply in which he urged Pausanias to pursue his project night and day, and promised to supply him with all the money and troops that might be needful for its execution. But the childish vanity of Pausanias betrayed his plot before it was ripe for execution.
She turned back to the beginning of the poem, and read the title of it: "A Hymn, to the name and honour of the admirable Saint Teresa Foundress of the Reformation of the discalced Carmelites, both men and women: a woman for angelical height of speculation, for masculine courage of performance more than a woman: who yet a child outran maturity, and durst plot a martyrdom."
There will not be a few who would like to take possession of the throne and they will certainly plot in the very confines of the palace, resulting in an increase of the sufferings of an aged monarch; and, even if the disaster of civil war be avoided, much dispute will arise owing to the uncertainty of the successor a dangerous situation indeed. Such is the lesson we learn from history.
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