 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! Ah! gentlemen,...  The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature - Page 94by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...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!...eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds everything, as in the splendor of noon, — such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection, even... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...came in, and escapes. He has done the murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secrel is his own, and it is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen, that...eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds everything, as in the splendor of noon, — such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection, even... | |
 | John Francis Knapp - Trials (Murder) - 1830 - 258 pages
...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 is his own, and it is safe ! V^Ah ! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can bo safe no-where. The whole creation... | |
 | Law - 1832 - 504 pages
...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...every thing, as in the splendor of noon, — such secrets'of guilt are never safe from detection, even by men. True it is, generally speaking, that "... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...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...was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe no where. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner, where the guilty can bestow it, and... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...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...through all disguises, and beholds every thing as in the splendour of noon, — such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection, even by men. True it is,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...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 own, and it is safe! Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret cm be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nor corner, where the guilty can bestow it,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...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 ! an infernal nature, a fiend, in the ordinary display and development of his character. Ah ! gentlemen,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Biography & Autobiography - 1838 - 932 pages
...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...Eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds everything, as in the splendour of noon, — such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection, even... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1838 - 284 pages
...passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder ; no eye has seen him, no ear heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe !...Eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds everything as in the splendour of noon, such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection, even by... | |
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