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Philip's design was to lull the alarm of Perez, and to recover out of his hands every scrap of written evidence which existed, implicating himself in the death of Escovedo.
Thus I continued to respect the privacy of Yusuf, to avoid implicating the good fame of Madame F , and to shew myself in a light which was tolerably advantageous to me. My story, which was full of sentiment, did me a great deal of honour, and I felt very happy when I saw from the expression of Madame F 's face that she was pleased with me, although somewhat surprised.
So when you gave me your card, I knew at once who you were." Ford made an immediate mental note of the bit of information implicating Mr. North, but did not allow himself to be diverted by the business affair. "Yes, I know; but that didn't help me a little bit," he protested, wishing that the distance to the hotel were twice as far.
A rumour was very prevalent at this time that some papers were found in De Semonville's portfolio implicating Count von Cobenzl as a correspondent with the revolutionary French generals. The continued confidence of his Sovereign contradicts, however, this inculpation, which seems to have been merely the invention of rivalry or jealousy.
However, Hurd saw well enough that the man was afraid of the Sahib's law, and when matters came to a crisis would try and prove his innocence even at the cost of implicating others. Therefore, with an easy mind the detective left these two witnesses being watched at Christchurch and repaired to town, where Aurora informed him of the interview with Hay.
She was ready to warn Sir Henry so far as she could without implicating her husband, and again and again she tried to do so.
He had hated me and vowed my death if I escaped the fate he could now dimly see opening out before himself; yet I could see that he was glad to see me slip from my tormentor's hands with my story unimpeached, and that he drew his breath more deeply and with much more evidence of freedom, now that my testimony had been thoroughly sifted and nothing had come to light implicating Carmel.
Twenty years later the facts were given to Parliament, Russian letters were found implicating the Czar's ministers, and the English agent, Burnes, was vindicated. The Anglo-Indian army consisting of twenty thousand troops, fifty thousand followers, and sixty thousand camels advanced in two columns, one from Bengal, and the other from Bombay by the Indus.
The police published pamphlets of all sorts, and the Comte de Montgaillard was brought from Lyons to draw up a libel implicating him with Pichegru and the exiled Princes. But nothing that was done produced the effect proposed. The weak character of Moreau is known.
He contemplated briefly, with admiration, the simplicity with which that affair at L'Abbaye had been managed, finding no just cause to suspect anyone there of criminal complicity in the plans of the Pack: a forged order for a table to the maitre-d'hotel, ten francs to the carriage-porter and twenty more to the dancing woman to play parts in a putative practical joke and the thing had been arranged without implicating a soul!...
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