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She went to her son's room that night, artfully and eloquently pictured the danger he was in, confessed to him that she had authorized the attempt upon Coligny, but that it was done because of the admiral's plottings against him, which she had discovered. But the Guises her enemies and his they knew it, and would denounce her and the king! The only thing now is to finish the work. He must die.
By working upon his fears, his suspicions, by stories of plottings against his life and his kingdom, she was to infuriate him; and then, while his rage was at its height, the opportunity for action must be at hand. The marriage of Charles's sister Margaret with the young Protestant leader Henry of Navarre, with its promise of future protection to the Huguenots, was part of the plot.
Credit me, there is cause for what amazed thee. The Queen and her Council know what they are about. Risk a little, and put an end to all the plottings for ever! That's the word." "Risk even the Queen's life?" Will Cavendish looked sapient, and replied, "We of the Council Board know many a thing that looks passing strange." Mr.
"Trust me," murmured Penn, and a smile twitched at his face. "Such plottings and plans and secrecy! I've been in it up to the neck from the first.
When confidences have been made, the persons making them must abide the consequences. When a partnership has been formed, neither partner has a right to retreat at once, leaving the burden of all debts upon the other. Had not all these thoughts, and plottings, which had been so heavy on his mind since that telegram had come, which had been so heavy on his soul, been her doing?
But she got in a clear demand at last was he or was he not going to hand those letters over? He said no, he was not they were going to remain in his possession as a hold over her; she was a danger to the community with her plottings and underhand ways, and he intended to show certain of those letters to others. There was more excited wrangling over this I heard Dr.
Salisbury indeed was always too wise to believe in the possibility of the schemes with which James and some of his other counsellors had been so much infatuated. It was almost dramatic that these plottings between James and the Catholic king against the life of the republic should have been signally and almost simultaneously avenged by the conspiracy of Guido Fawkes.
She saw in imagination all her enemies victorious her husband and Lord Lovat successful in all their plottings, high in power and glory; while she, who could have given timely intimation of their schemes she who could have saved the throne and kingdom was confined to this island like an eagle in a cage.
Meanwhile, keep fast that door I would not for my life that any of these heretics saw her in the unhappy state, which, brought on her as it has been by the success of their own diabolical plottings, they would not stick to call, in their snuffling cant, the judgment of Providence." She left the apartment just as the latch of the outward door was raised from without.
Strange things these same chances are, that do so much more in our lives than all our plottings! 'Tell me something of your friend, perhaps I ought to say your admirer, Nina! 'Yes, very much my admirer; not seriously, you know, but in that charming sort of adoration we cultivate abroad, that means anything or nothing.
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