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Updated: May 22, 2025
"I mean, madame, that God did not give you so much beauty that you should use it in the decoying of an unfortunate, that you should hire it at an assassin's fee to serve the crapulous King of Spain." He rose and towered before her, a figure at once of anger, dignity, and some compassion. "So much ardour from youth and beauty to age and infirmity was in itself suspicious.
Strokes have been struck before By the assassin's hand, whereof men doubt If more of horror or disgrace they bore; But this foul crime, like Cain's, stands darkly out. Hastily dressing, the two policemen mounted and took the trail once more.
"One Revolutionary Tribunal is not enough," said Gamelin, "there should be one in every town ... in every town, do I say? nay, in every village, in every hamlet. Fathers of families, citizens, one and all, should constitute themselves judges. At a time when the enemy's cannon is at her gates and the assassin's dagger at her throat, the Nation must hold mercy to be parricide. What!
Philip and Granvelle were right in their estimate of the advantage to be derived from the Prince's death, in believing that an assassin's hand could achieve more than all the wiles which Spanish or Italian statesmanship could teach, or all the armies which Spain or Italy could muster.
It was the lifeless body of Donovan's companion, the soldier who had escaped the assassin's bullet when "Patsy" fell only to be overtaken and cut down half-way to Moreno's. "It's the bloodiest night I've known even in Arizona," said Lee to his young leader. "The paymaster and Mr.
This transformation, which is rather going on than completed, is, under one aspect at least, a progress, or rather a return to the sounder principles of antiquity. Under it government ceases to be a mere agency, which must obtain the assassin's consent to be hung before it can rightfully hang him, and becomes authority, which is one and imperative.
But to-day Caligula only saw in her the tool whom conspirators meant to use for their treacherous ends, her loveliness paled in his eyes before the awful suspicion which he had of her guilt, and whilst she stood quietly awaiting his pleasure, he marvelled how much she knew of the traitors' plans and whether her white fingers would effectually thrust the dagger into an assassin's hand.
I must appoint a new minister of police." "Sire," replied the minister, "how much time will you give me to discover the assassin?" "One week," replied the emperor. "I thank your majesty," replied the minister, bowing. "In one week, you shall have the assassin's head, or my resignation."
Its patriotic promoter, M. Rossi, fell under the assassin's hand, and every passion revolutionary, anti-religious, and anti-French joined hands to make it fail. In its place we have Italian unity and a dethroned Pope.
Thus the bounty of the Prince had furnished the weapon by which his life was destroyed, and his estates supplied the fund out of which the assassin's family received the price of blood.
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