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It was in the same hand as the others, it was the writing of his rival, Von Kindar, her beau cousin. Lord Elliot folded the paper carefully and hid it in his bosom; then throwing the others into the drawer, he locked it, placing the key in the portfolio. "It is well," said he, "I have now all I need. This letter is his death-warrant." He took the light and left the room.
Arrived at the door of Notre Dame, where the clerk was awaiting him, he descended from the tumbril without assistance, took a lighted wax taper weighing two pounds in his hand, and did penance, kneeling, bareheaded and barefooted, a rope round his neck, repeating the words of the death-warrant.
"Didn't it occur to you that the man to whose interest it was to have that warrant had probably got hold of it?" "Yes; and that he'd burnt it, too. A man doesn't from choice carry a death-warrant next his heart. It would make a bad poultice."
"You cannot know what you are doing." "I have an idea," I answered grimly. "He warned me." "Yet you cannot understand," she persisted. "Do you know that, even in saying this much to me, you are signing your death-warrant that from this moment your life will not be safe for a single moment?" "I know that there is danger," I answered; "but I am not an easy person to kill.
Vaudreuil and Montcalm were at variance, and Vaudreuil had, through his personal hatred and envy of Montcalm, signed the death-warrant of the colony by writing to the colonial minister that Montcalm's agents, going for succour, were not to be trusted.
"That means," said the queen to the police minister Brienne, who brought the queen every morning tidings of what had occurred at Paris and Versailles, "that means that my death-warrant was signed yesterday." "Your majesty goes too far!" cried the minister in horror, "I think that this has an entirely different meaning.
A wetting would not dim this girl's splendid color, nor reduce her vitality one degree, while to him it might be a death-warrant. "You could throw me over my own horse," he admitted, in a kind of bitter admiration, and slipped the coat on, shivering with cold as he did so. "You think me a poor excuse of a trailer, don't you?" he said, ruefully, as the thunder began to roll.
'When called upon by the Duke of Wellington to sign her first death-warrant, the Queen asked, with tears in her eyes, 'Have you nothing to say in behalf of this man? 'Nothing; he has deserted three times, was the reply. 'Oh, your Grace, think again.
'Hedzoff, he said, taking a death-warrant out of his dressing-gown pocket, 'Hedzoff, good Hedzoff, seize upon the Prince. Thou'lt find him in his chamber two pair up. But now he dared, with sacrilegious hand, to strike the sacred night-cap of a king Hedzoff, and floor me with a warming-pan! Away, no more demur, the villain dies!
Catharine's death-warrant is signed. Now, my reverend priest of the devil, the king will not find that paper, for John Heywood will not have it so. But how shall I begin? Shall I tell the queen what I heard? No! She would lose her cheerful spirit and become embarrassed, and the embarrassment would be in the king's eyes the most convincing proof of her guilt.
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