Realizing he that he had just revealed his guilt, he swiftly spun around to flee, only to have a sword stuck in his throat.

Immediately my Shackles loosened and fell away of themselves […]

Or 'twas wont to be so, / Just a few years ago, / At the time when Jack used to bewander to know, / That a Corporal's Guard Left the Old Barrack […]

a paper baron; a paper lord