I do not see why it should not be done." "Well, you are certainly the coolest hand I ever came across," O'Neil said.

"You are proposing to seize the first minister in England, as if it were merely an affair of carrying off a pretty girl quite willing to be captured.

The idea seems monstrous, and yet, as you put it, I do not see why it might not succeed." "I hardly think that it could fail," Desmond said quietly.

"De Tulle managed to carry off the Baron de Pointdexter's daughter from the court of Versailles, and did so without any hitch or difficulty.

Surely three Irishmen could arrange an affair of this sort as well as a French vicomte." "If it is to be done," O'Sullivan said, "I think the second plan is best.