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To smuggle fireworks into the Arsenal and the Town House; and then, on the eve of execution, to fail as utterly as he failed last time! More utterly than my plan can fail, for I shall not put Geneva on its guard as he did! Nor set every enemy of the Grand Duke talking as he did!" M. d'Albigny for he it was let drop an oath.
D'Albigny had been there, and Brunaulieu, Captain of the Grand Duke's Guards, and Father Alexander, who dreamed of the Episcopate of Geneva, and others the chiefs of the plot, his patrons. To his mortification they had been able to tell him things he had not learned, though he was within the city, and they without.
But they asked impatiently why D'Albigny with the main body did not come; why Brunaulieu with the Monnaye in his hands did not see that the time was opportune. They chafed at the delay. Give the city time to array itself, let it recover from its first surprise, and all their forces might scarcely avail to crush opposition.
Basterga retorted coolly. "Nor will you ever have your hand on it, without help from me." "And that is all you have to say?" "At present." "Very good," d'Albigny replied, nodding contemptuously. "If his Highness be wise " "He is wise. At least," Basterga continued drily, "he is wiser than M. d'Albigny. He knows that it is better to wait and win, than leap and lose."
Ay, and not only within the walls, but fresh from a conference with the Sieur d'Albigny, primed with all we need to know, and in doubt by which side he could most profit!" "It was about that you saw him?" Petitot said slowly, his eyes fixed like gimlets to the other's face. "It was about that I saw him," Blondel answered. "And I think in a few hours more I had won him.
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