You must seek out some other tool.

I can be none in your hands." "If this be real, and not affected indignation, Sir Jocelyn," said De Gondomar coldly, "it would seem that I have been altogether mistaken in you, and that I have been helping you up the ladder only to be kicked aside when you have gained a secure footing.

But you have not reached the last step yet, and never will, unless I find you more reasonable.
And allow me to ask you, if you are as scrupulous as you profess to be, how you came to bring a token to me from a hired spy--a token intended to let me know you were willing to undertake any secret service I might choose to confide to you?
Have you changed your mind since then?
or rather, do you not fancy yourself out of danger, and able to dispense with my assistance ?" "I have ever been of the same opinion, Count; have ever been influenced by the same feelings of loyalty and devotion to my sovereign, and of detestation of all treasonable practices.

Had I been aware of the import of the ring I showed your Excellency on our first meeting, I would have hacked off my finger rather than have displayed it.

Neither did I know the character of the man who confided it to me; though I ought to have distrusted him.