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Mistress Corbet wrinkled her nose at the damp earthy smell that breathed out of the dark. "I am glad I am not a priest," she said. "And I would sooner be buried dead than alive. And there is a rat there that sorely needs burying." "My dear lady!" cried the contriver of the passage indignantly, "her Grace might sleep there herself and take no harm. There is not even the whisker of a rat."
That was the time which his secret instructions to Decaen marked out for the outbreak of the war that would yield to the tricolour a world-wide supremacy. These schemes miscarried owing to the impetuosity of their contriver.
The theological machinery that spoke so livingly to our ancestors, with its finite age of the world, its creation out of nothing, its juridical morality and eschatology, its relish for rewards and punishments, its treatment of God as an external contriver, an 'intelligent and moral governor, sounds as odd to most of us as if it were some outlandish savage religion.
If I jump to you I jump with all four feet. It happens that certain other proxies have been put into my hands by Malone interests. Had I not come to town I should have mailed them today as it is I still have them. I shall vote them as you direct." With this chameleon turn of complexion, the astute contriver realized that he had scored.
XLIV. Having devastated the country in such a manner, Caesar leads back his army with the loss of two cohorts to Durocortorum of the Remi, and, having summoned a council of Gaul to assemble at that place, he resolved to hold an investigation respecting the conspiracy of the Senones and Carnutes, and having pronounced a most severe sentence upon Acco, who had been the contriver of that plot, he punished him after the custom of our ancestors.
Upon this confidence of Solmes, you will less wonder at that of Lovelace, 'in pressing me in the name of all his family, to escape from so determined a violence as is intended to be offered to me at my uncle's: that the forward contriver should propose Lord M.'s chariot and six to be at the stile that leads up to the lonely coppice adjoining to our paddock.
And from the relation repeated in Numbers, it appears, that Balaam was the contriver of the whole matter. It is also ascribed to him in the Revelation, where he is said to have taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel.
On reaching the studio, and just as he entered the door, he was inundated by the contents of a bucket of water, which one of his companions had suspended over the door, and managed to overturn on the head of Nicholas. Furious at this unexpected douche, he flew at its unlucky contriver, and gave him a hearty beating.
* See Vol.II. Letter XXXVI. So, my dear, it comes out, that I myself was obliged to this deep contriver. I sat in silent astonishment; and thus he went on.
He had been in the service of the Lord Fleming, the governor, but on account of contumelious usage had quitted it, and had been the contriver of the scheme.
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