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But, my lords, they are employed to ruin us by a more slow and silent method; they are directed to influence their relations in the senate, and to suborn the voters in our small towns; they are dispersed over the nation to instil dependence, and being enslaved themselves, willingly undertake the propagation of slavery.
"My husband married me with the sole idea of using my house, my friends, my social position here for the furtherance of his schemes. Under my roof I discovered meetings of spies, spies paid to suborn the different services in this country the navy, the army, the railway works. When I protested, he laughed at me. He made no secret of his ambitions.
I have warned you before, but the time for advice is past. Your hostess here is a creature of the French police, and her business here is to suborn you and others whom she can buy or cajole into a treasonable breach of confidence. It is very possible that you know all this, and more. But I appeal to you as an Englishman and the representative of a great English family.
If you were to suborn an informer to accuse a man, and afterwards withdrew him, if you engaged a man in a law suit and afterwards gave it up, no one would hesitate to call you a villain: what difference does it make, whether you attempt to do this by chicanery or by prayer, unless it be that by prayer you raise up more powerful enemies to him than by the other means?
Nothing answering to that description, composed by a statesman and a philosopher, with an avowed intention in his writing an intention to effect changes, too, in the actual condition of men, and 'to suborn practice and actual life, no such work by such an author could by any means have been got through the press then.
So as Mr. Copplestone knew all about her in July, he was not likely to suborn a draughtsman in November. See?" "You should have told me this before. It was your duty." "My good Dawson," said the Admiral gently, "you are an excellent officer of police, but even you have a few things yet to learn.
"I think, your excellency," said he, "we must neither act on the defensive nor yet on the offensive." "How so, Mr. Counsellor?" replied the General, astounded. "There is nothing else open to us in tactics one must act either on the defensive or the offensive." "Your excellency, endeavour to suborn."
His object was to compel Riccabocca into assenting to the count's marriage with Violante, or, failing that, to ruin all chance of his kinsman's restoration. Quietly and secretly he had sought out, amongst the most needy and unprincipled of his own countrymen, those whom he could suborn to depose to Riccabocca's participation in plots and conspiracies against the Austrian dominion.
The following Wednesday was the feast of Corpus Christi. Then would be his opportunity. Kneeling there, with head bent in ecstatic devotion, he matured his treacherous plan. The single sentry he could suborn, or else if bribery failed poniard. He realised that single-handed he might not lower the cumbrous drawbridge, nor would it be wise, even if possible, for the noise of it might give the alarm.
Jezebel said she could secure the vineyard; and she went forth and forged letters to the nobles and wise men, in the King's name, and ordered them to proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high before the people, and suborn two witnesses to swear that he had blasphemed. They did it, and the people stoned the accused by the city wall, and he died.
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