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I had been with the Spaniards for several years, I say, when one day we sighted an English merchantman, as we thought, and chased her. She appeared to be sailing but slowly, and we very soon caught her up, to find that we had walked, or rather sailed, into a deeply-laid trap.
He pointed to his haggard face, and told her that a refusal would inevitably complete the work that Manners had begun, but she was firm; and seeing that nothing would shake her resolution, he resolved to put his plan into operation immediately upon his recovery. It was a deeply-laid scheme, the scheme of a villain, and it revealed its author in its proper light.
But the plot against Yakowleff to dispossess him of the concession for Otchakov was a much more deeply-laid and evil one. The financier had returned to Petrograd, flushed with his success with his moneyed friends in London. Already news had gone round that a wonderful casino was to be built to eclipse Monte Carlo, and he had given an interview to the Novoye Vremya concerning it.
The duke hoped that the royal family, terrified by the approach of the infuriated multitude, would enter their carriages and flee to join the emigrants at Coblentz. The throne would then be vacant, and the people would make the Duke of Orleans, who, to secure this result, had become one of the most violent of the Democrats, their king. It was a deeply-laid plot and a very plausible enterprise.
I had no intentions in getting into the carriage, and I am sure you cannot have told the postillion to drive on." "You may be quite sure of that." "All the same my mother will believe it to be a deeply-laid plan, and that strikes me as amusing." "So it is; I am quite satisfied, certainly.
"I don't see it," said Aleck, who felt ready to give the man credit for having met with some mishap. "Well, I do. It was a deeply-laid scheme to trap us shut us up here and leave us to die while he escaped." "Nonsense," cried Aleck. "Why, it would be a horrible murder!" "Yes; horrible diabolical shocking." "I don't believe Eben Megg would be such a wretch," said Aleck, stoutly.
"Will they venture again to assail the honor of the queen?" he asked. "Yes, sire," answered Breteuil, with his invincible calmness "yes, sire, they will venture to do so. And at this time it is so infernal and deeply-laid a plan that it will be difficult to get at the truth. Will your majesty allow me to unfold the details of the matter somewhat fully?"
George I. was a Doge; George II. was a Doge; they were what William III., a great man, would not be. George III. tried not to be a Doge, but it was impossible materially to resist the deeply-laid combination. He might get rid of the Whig magnificoes, but he could not rid himself of the Venetian constitution.
Plain common sense says that the owners of shelly or bony fragments found in the deeply-laid strata of the earth must have lived countless years ago, and if the evolutionist asserts that primitive organic forms of ancient times have produced changed descendants of later times, it would seem that fossil evidence would be supremely and overwhelmingly important.
Moreover, at these hearings the defender of the cardinal could take part, in order to summon those witnesses or accused persons who could contribute to the release of the cardinal, and show that he had been the victim of a deeply-laid plot, and had committed no other wrong than that of being too zealous in the service of the queen. News spread abroad of numerous arrests occurring in Paris.
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