"I have been informed," said James, "of the business.

If you and your companions do me this service, you shall never want." After this audience Grandval set out on his journey.

He had not the faintest suspicion that he had been betrayed both by the accomplice who accompanied him and by the accomplice whom he was going to meet.
Dumont and Leefdale were not enthusiasts.

They cared nothing for the restoration of James, the grandeur of Lewis, or the ascendency of the Church of Rome.

It was plain to every man of common sense that, whether the design succeeded or failed, the reward of the assassins would probably be to be disowned, with affected abhorrence, by the Courts of Versailles and Saint Germains, and to be torn with redhot pincers, smeared with melted lead, and dismembered by four horses.