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"Sir John Fenwick!" exclaimed the Earl, as soon as Wilton came to the events that succeeded the robbery "he is a dangerous companion, Sir John Fenwick! We know him to be disaffected, a nonjuror, and a plotter of a dark and intriguing character. Who was the Duke he met with? Duke of what?"
A dram of spirits restored the plotter to something of his customary self-possession; and he was standing, glass in hand and genially convalescent, when his eye was attracted by the dejection of the unfortunate young man. 'Good heavens, dear Somerset, he cried, 'what ails you? Let me offer you a touch of spirits. But Somerset had fallen below the reach of this material comfort.
And Braccio, plotter and betrayer, yet always with a certain fidelity towards his mother-city, is won over to the side of simple truth and righteousness by the overmastering power of Luria's magnanimity.
He was unwilling however to deal harshly with a man who had many titles to respect, and who was not likely to be a very formidable plotter. He therefore declared himself satisfied, and proposed to discharge the prisoner. Some of the Privy Councillors, however, remonstrated; and Penn was required to give bail,
Such a scheme had never been arranged nor even imagined, he said. The true plotter was Conde, aided by ministers in Flanders hostile to France, and as the honour of the King and the reputation of the Princess had been injured by this scandal, the Ambassador loudly demanded a thorough investigation of the affair in order that vengeance might fall where it was due.
"Yes, a Jesuit, and a marvellously shrewd one: the Abbe Montreuil." "He was my tutor." "Ah, so I have heard." "And your acquaintance with him is positively and bona fide of a state nature?" "Positively and bona fide." "I could tell you something of him; he is certainly in the service of the Court at St. Germains, and a terrible plotter on this side the Channel."
'Find him! echoed the bishop, passionately. 'No one on earth could have found the man. He did not exist. 'Then who wrote the letter? 'Krant himself, as he told me in this very room, the wicked plotter! 'But his handwriting; would not his wife have 'No! cried Pendle, rising and pacing to and fro, greatly agitated, 'the man disguised his hand so that his wife should not recognise it.
"Secret agent I.W.W.!... Plotter against my father's life!... Oh, he knocked father off the car dragged him!... He ran the car away with me forced me back he struck me!... Oh, if I were a man!" Nash responded with a passion that made his face drip with sweat and distort into savage fury of defeat and hate. "You two-faced cat!" he hissed. "You made love to me! You fooled me! You let me "
"Will you give me carte-blanche to do as I please?" asked the small plotter. "Sure!" said the Honorable David heartily, adding: "You can always outfigure me, two to one, when it comes to the real thing. You've made a fine art of it, Honoria, and I'll turn the steering-wheel over to you any day in the week."
He does not even attempt now to hide his dislike of me, nor to draw for me that cloak of suave composure over the fierce temper that is always gnawing at his vitals as surely as fox ever gnawed little Spartan. He sees that it is useless, I suppose. As I went upstairs to greet Madeleine, I laughed to myself to think how Fate had circumvented the plotter. Alas, how foolish I was to laugh!
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