"The whole affair has been treated and concealed as the most profound secret.

The emperor does not wish to have anything known about it; no one must deem it possible that people have dared to seek to take his life, to attempt to capture him.

I never saw him in such a fury as when I first told him the plan of the conspirators.

His eyes flashed lightnings, he stamped his feet, clenched his little hands into fists, and stretched them threateningly toward the invisible conspirators.

He vowed to kill them all, to take vengeance on them all for the unprecedented crime." "And has he fulfilled the vow ?" "He has.