It would ill suit his plans if only two common rascals were to swing for it.

Far better let it remain a mystery open to awful guesses.

Omne ignotum pro horrifico....

Lovel's temper was getting the better of his prudence, and the sight of this monstrous baboon with his mincing speech stirred in him a strange abhorrence.
"I can bear witness that the men who did the deed were no more Jesuits than you.

One is just out of Newgate, and the other is a blackguard Scot late dismissed the Duke of Buckingham's service." "Ye lie," and Oates' rasping voice was close to his ear.