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"'Sir Walter Murphy, said I, addressing my father, 'comes to aid me in unmasking these wretches, to whose machinations you were near falling a victim. Then, handing to Sir Walter the vial, I added, 'I have had the good fortune to become possessed of this at the moment Dr. Polidori was about administering to my father its contents.
In a fit of unjustified doubt of her sincerity, he complained, with a querulous snap: 'You have your own ideas; you have your own ideas. You think me this and that. A man must be employed. 'And this is to account for your occupation? she remarked. 'Employed, I say! the count reiterated fretfully. He was unmasking to no purpose, and felt himself as on a slope, having given his adversary vantage.
His investigation of the case of the man with the shaven skull afforded an instance of this, and even more notable was his first meeting with Major Jack Ragstaff of the Cavalry Club, a meeting which took place after the office had been closed, but which led to the unmasking of perhaps the most cunning murderer in the annals of crime.
I tried to look into her eyes, but in vain; nothing could I see but that wisp of golden hair which occasionally brushed my chin as with a surreptitious caress. If only I dared remain till the unmasking! I pressed her hand. There was an answering pressure, but its tenderness was destroyed by the low laughter that accompanied it. "Don't be silly!" she whispered. "How can I help it?"
Upon the very first day after the unmasking of the batteries, the city sent to Noircarmes, offering almost an unconditional surrender.
"I do not only inculpate Ræderer," exclaimed Tallien, "I denounce Condorcet and Brissot. Let us drive from our society the ambitious and the Cromwellites." "The moment for unmasking traitors will soon arrive," said Robespierre in his turn. "I do not desire to unmask them to-day. The blow when struck must be decisive. I wish that all France heard me now.
Ricardo? My eyes are tired at night." He cleared his throat. "It is an answer to Bishop Crawford's recent letter to The Times, which you may have seen. I have called it 'Unmasking the Oracle." Robert leant out of the window and watched the sun sink into mist and smoke. He wished Mr. Ricardo hadn't come; and that he would go away soon.
Lord John thanks you for these proofs of friendship Lord John has reason to thank you, Mr. Talbot. Rory. No reason in life now. Don't be thanking so much for nothing in life; or if you must be thanking of somebody, it's me you ought to thank. Lord J. I ought and do, sir, for unmasking one who Talb. Unmasking, my lord Phoo! phoo! phoo! be easy, can't ye? there's no unmasking at all in the case.
But every little while he went through a period of acute torture; he had a wild desire to break out of his prison, to be on the ground in Egypt, to go at the job of unmasking Britt as only a man vitally interested in the task could go at it! Sometimes his frenzy reached such a height that it resembled the affliction that pathologists call claustrophobia.
Black around the neck, properly relieved by the white of the linen, was then deemed particularly military; and even in the ordinary dress, such a peculiarity was as certain a sign as the cockade that the wearer bore arms. Raoul knew this, and he felt he was aiding in unmasking himself by complying; but he thought there might be greater danger should he refuse to assume the kerchief.
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