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Rasputin smiled in triumph when he heard the exact details which Madame Doukhovski had divulged. "Sit down yonder, my friend, and put that into writing, and sign it," said the monk, indicating the table by the window. "You will not punish her for her indiscretion, I hope," remarked the man, who was at the moment plotting that series of terrible disasters. "Not in the least," Rasputin assured him.
In 1861, when the rebellion had broken out, and it was supposed sympathizers with it were in Ohio plotting aid to the rebels, Judge Willson delivered a charge to the grand jury, again defining the law in regard to conspiracy and treason, and in the course of his address took occasion to unreservedly condemn the motives and actions of the rebels.
"No, I wouldn't. I'll tell you where to take him." He finished by whispering into Arnold Baxter's ear. At once the rascal's face brightened, and he nodded. "Just the thing!" he muttered. "It will serve him right." "Are you going to let me go?" demanded Dick uneasily, for he saw that the two were plotting to do him injury. "No," came from both. Without another word Dick leaped for the door.
Instead of opposing, it had sanctioned and consecrated the savage instinct which leads us to hate whatever is strange or unintelligible, to distrust those who live on the further side of a river, to suppose that those whom we hear talking together in a foreign tongue must be plotting some mischief against ourselves.
He was pleased to think that at least she would not forget him the minute he was out of her sight. He went to sleep worrying, not over the trouble which Florence Grace Hallman might be plotting to bring upon him, but about Miss Allen's given name and her previous condition of servitude.
And the children grew up, their mother, never dreaming that Barbara at eighteen was more than the sweet, light- hearted, manageable child she had been at ten; that Ned was beginning to taste of a life of whose existence she was only vaguely aware; that Sally was plotting an escape to the ranks of trained nurses; that Ted needed a firm hand and close watching if she were not to break all their hearts.
Holding one hand aloft, the plotting Klan Hua pointed with the other towards the astonished Yu Chan, as he fiercely cried: "'Thou false-tongued traitor, thou hast insulted thy monarch to his face! "The ruler bent forward from his cushions and looked in surprise from the accuser to the accused.
The doings of these merry girls made the record of their freshman year memorable indeed. The winning of the freshman prize by Anne Pierson, despite the determined opposition and plotting of Miriam Nesbit, also aspiring to that honor, Mrs.
It appears, indeed, to a slight and superficial observer, that many things impracticable in our present state, might be easily effected, if mankind were better disposed to union and co-operation: but a little reflection will discover, that if confederacies were easily formed, they would lose their efficacy, since numbers would be opposed to numbers, and unanimity to unanimity; and instead of the present petty competitions of individuals or single families, multitudes would be supplanting multitudes, and thousands plotting against thousands.
This small instrument impressed me most because it made me think how weary the heroic navigator must have felt as he saw the sand dropping grain by grain while desperate men were plotting against his life. Mr.
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