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Gilbert, anxiously, as soon as the door was closed. "No, madam; my father and Solomon always sit up together now till late." "Ay; plotting against my boy, I doubt not. Well, let us, then, counterplot. Who sleeps on either side of this room?" "No one, madam. Both rooms are empty at present; the last visitor, except yourself, left us this evening." "And the servants?"
I mean the man who is not only thwarting the woman, but giving you a pretty severe lesson as to the advisability of minding your own business for the future." "Then you don't think I am being made the victim of a vile conspiracy?" "Not by the woman, certainly. You are the victim of some fiendish counterplot by the man, who has not quite mastered what the woman is driving at.
They will find me there instead. What is it you hope, that they will kill me, or that I shall kill them, or what?" "That is a very reasonable question," Louis admitted. "I will answer it. In the first place, I would have them know that they have not all the wits on their side, and if they plot, we, too, can counterplot.
And back there, just across the border he had so recently crossed, still reigned the midnight of the Orient, glamorous with the glamour of the Arabian Nights, dreadful with its dumb menace, its atmosphere of plot and counterplot, mutiny, treason, intrigue, and death.
This he had arranged, that the general might see Miss Temple, as if by accident; and also allow me, who, my father supposed, was not aware of Miss Temple being in town, to meet with her, What a deal of humbug there is in this world! Nothing but plot and counterplot!
He was, besides, in constant anxiety, living as he did between plot and counterplot, and with the certainty that emissaries of the Council surrounded him who would have no scruple in taking Mary's life, and leaving him to bear the blame, when Elizabeth would have to explain the deed to the other sovereigns of Europe.
This official has gone into the palace daily for a dozen years past and knows every plot and counterplot that has been hatched in that nest of seclusion during all that time, though he has been implicated in none of them. He has held the highest positions in the gift of the empire without ever once having been degraded.
Is the lack of unity in the Play sufficiently remedied by enriching the Bianca counterplot and arranging for alternate interest first in the plot and then in the counterplot, or is the original difficulty irremediable? In which story is plot or else character the supreme interest? Is the Bianca story or the Katherine story the more entertaining? Why?
What mine host himself might have in view for me I could not guess, but most likely those three rapscallions down at the quarters were already plotting my murder. So now for a counterplot alas! the counterplot would not unfold for me! I rallied all my wits. Here was an open window. Through it the moonlight poured in upon the lower half of the bed.
"After all, it is you who must do this thing. No one else. It is you they are offering on the altar of their ambition." "Ambition?" "Ambition. What else is it? Surely you do not believe these tales they tell old wives' tales of plot and counterplot!" "But the Chancellor " "Certainly the Chancellor!" mocked Olga Loschek. "Highness, for years he has had a dream. A great dream.
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