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Temporarily a burning pain in his left shoulder drove all other considerations out of mind. The salt water was beginning to smart in the raw, superficial wound made by that assassin's bullet ... back there in the stateroom ... long ago....
The two looked after the splendid figure. "That bird is in fine feather," said Champernoun. Gaspard's jaw was very grim. "Some day he will lie huddled under the assassin's knife. He will die as he has made my chief die, and his body will be cast to the dog's.... But he has given me a plan," and he spoke in his companion's ear. The Englishman laughed.
Seward, while suffering from a broken arm, was also stabbed by another murderer in his own house, but still survives, and his son was wounded, supposed fatally. It is believed, by persons capable of judging, that other high officers were designed to share the same fate. Thus it seems that our enemy, despairing of meeting us in open, manly warfare, begins to resort to the assassin's tools.
He remembered the look in the assassin's face horrible, an epitome of the passions, which seemed to reveal to him in that moment the existence of some other, some unknown world, about which he had neither read nor dreamed. The sound of footsteps came as an immense relief. A man came round the corner, smoking a cigarette and humming softly to himself.
The assassin's revenge. Anxiety of the Duchess of Lorraine. Scene in Henry's chamber. Rumors of trouble. Assembling for work. Alarm in the metropolis. Inflexibility of Catharine. The faltering of Charles. Nerved for the work. The knell of death. "Vive Dieu et le roi!"
Never a day passed but he exchanged sword-thrusts with the Neri in the streets of Florence, where in old days he had meditated on the nature and constitution of the soul. More than once he had felt the assassin's dagger on his flesh, before he was banished with the rest of his faction and confined in the plague-stricken town of Sarzana. For six months he languished there, sick with fever and hate.
I even had a sense of surprise at the comparative mildness and painlessness of the pang. I heard some one fall heavily, but in the darkness it was impossible to distinguish individuals. So close on the assassin's shots that they were hardly distinguishable came the cracks of our own guns, and without giving the concealed riflemen time to shift positions our men charged into the ambush.
"But where is Lady Wallace?" asked the earl; "if there be such danger we must not leave her to meet it." "She will never meet danger more!" cried the old man, clasping his hand; "she is in the bosom of the Virgin; and no second assassin's steel can reach her there." "What!" exclaimed the earl, hardly articulate with horror; "is Lady Wallace murdered?" Halbert answered only by his tears.
He made of the judicial robe an assassin's disguise. On the bench, he was free to sate his thirst for others' sufferings adding to a sentence five undeserved years here, ten there; slipping into his instructions to juries a phrase that would mean the death penalty! "He revelled in judicial murders.
Caffie strangled, suspicion would not fall upon a doctor, but on a brute. When doctors wish to kill any one, they do it learnedly, by poison or by some scientific method. Brutal men kill brutally; murder, called the assassin's profession. A few minutes before, he was inundated by perspiration; this word froze him. He rose nervously, and walked up and down the room with long, unsteady steps.
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