Beneath the fanatic he masked the conspirator.
He failed in his part, after a few days, beneath the truth and his remorse.

He avowed the conspiracy, named the guilty, and the reward of his crime.

It was a sum of money, that had been weighed, rix-dollar by rix-dollar, against the blood of Gustavus.

The plot, planned six months before, had been thrice frustrated, by chance or destiny--at the diet of Jessen, at Stockholm, and at Haga.

The king killed, all his favourites--all the instruments of his government--must be sacrificed to the vengeance of the senate and the restoration of the aristocracy.
Their heads were to have been carried at the tops of pikes, in the streets of the capital, in imitation of the popular punishments of Paris.