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His brief reign was brought to a close at Cattaro, in 1861, by an assassin's bullet, and Nicolas, his nephew, reigned in his stead. War broke out again on the Hercegovinian insurrection of the following year, the results of which were disastrous in a high degree to Montenegro.
Ungrateful wretch, too, to have attempted the life of the valiant Comandante he who had been striving all he could to recover the assassin's sister from the Indian savages! And now he had actually succeeded! Only think of it! There she was, brought safe home again by the agency of this very Comandante, who had sent his captain and soldiers for her, this very man whom he would have killed!
What could Daniel conclude from this summary inquiry? "There is no doubt about it," he thought. "I was to be murdered." There is no man, however brave he may think himself, who would not tremble at the idea that he has, just by a miracle, escaped from the assassin's hand.
Who had made the key, the indispensable key without which Danegre, on leaving the apartment, could not have locked the door behind him? Who had ever seen such a key, and what had become of it? Who had seen the assassin's knife, and where is it now? "In any event," argued the prisoner's counsel, "the prosecution must prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the prisoner committed the murder.
And I would go in my old age to Our Lady of Loretto to express my boundless gratitude to the Madonna. But suppose he has fallen under the assassin's sword?" Mary shuddered at the thought, but she interrupted the old man. "Signor, Geronimo possessed an amulet which had rested on the tomb of our Lord.
But if a tenant shot me it would be difficult to identify him, more difficult to arrest him, and downright impossible to convict him. Since Lord O'Hagan's Jury Act it is quite impossible to get convictions against the lower orders witness the memorable instance of Mr. Creagh, when the assassin's gun burst and blew his finger off.
"Murdered!" reiterated the King, as the word was echoed in all the various intonations of horror, grief, and indignation from all around; and he laid his hand heavily on Aguilar's shoulder "Man, man, how can this be? Who would dare lift up the assassin's hand against him him, the favorite of our subjects as of ourselves? Who had cause of enmity of even rivalship with him?
There was chance in Theodore Roosevelt's coming into the Presidency as he did, but there was irony as well. An evil chance dropped William McKinley before an assassin's bullet; but there was a fitting irony in the fact that the man who must step into his place had been put where he was in large measure by the very men who would least like to see him become President.
A contest between Congress and the executive was clearly imminent when the assassin's bullet removed the patient and conciliatory Lincoln. Lincoln's determination to leave control over their restoration as far as possible in the hands of the states was in line with Johnson's Democratic, states-rights theories.
"They tried him in the wilderness and destroyed him; and then, for the honour of England and of his daughter, they took an oath to seal up for ever the story of the traitor's purse and the assassin's sword blade. Perhaps Heaven help them they tried to forget it. Let us try to forget it, anyhow; here is our inn."
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