It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe! American orators - Page 328edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,...heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe! Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,...— no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secrel is his own, and it is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can... | |
| John Francis Knapp - 1830 - 258 pages
...feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It is accomplished. The deed is done. Heretreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it, as he cama in, and escapes. He has done the murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer ! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,...has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe no where. The whole creation... | |
| 1832 - 504 pages
...picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer ! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,...has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! ' Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
| 1834 - 614 pages
...wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no -longer ! It is accomplished. Tihe deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the...has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! " Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1835 - 1166 pages
...ascertains that it beats no lona« г ' It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces Ins rtr\ to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and esc,i|x He has done the murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has lii'ur'i him. The secret is his... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer ! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,...through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder—no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! an infernal... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 354 pages
...picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,...heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe! Ah, gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of... | |
| John Todd - 1839 - 444 pages
...picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse. He feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer!" " It is accomplished ! The deed is done ! He retreats,...has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe /" " Ah ! that was a dreadful mistake ! Such a secret can be safe nowhere! The whole creation of God... | |
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