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"I am not vain enough to imagine your statement to be true." "Beware, marquis," said the count; "I have eyes." "So much the better for you." "And in the dungeons of Milan there are cells, in which patriots are broken on the wheel and forced to name their accomplices "
Believing in Jesus, we can pass by mines, and factories, and by dungeons darker and fouler still, in the lanes and alleys of our great towns and cities, where thousands and tens of thousands of starving men, and wan women, and children grown old before their youth, sit toiling and pining in Mammon's prison-house, in worse than Egyptian bondage, to earn such pay as just keeps the broken heart within the worn-out body; ay, we can go through our great cities, even now, and see the women, whom God intended to be Christian wives and mothers, the slaves of the rich man's greed by day, the playthings of his lust by night and yet not despair; for we can cry, No! thou proud Mammon, money-making fiend!
But if he overthrow not the government, but by compromise become Minister of Military and Internal Peace, then my Georgio will be in innocence a victim, and perhaps will have to hide, which is hot and dull, or go to the dungeons of La Libertad, which is dull and wet; or we would escape from the country in the distinguished ship of the Senor Buckingham, or in the Imperial Company of Senor Flannagan, which would be better."
They sat quiet and business-like, pronouncing a doom upon the slaves of North Valley. Back to their black dungeons with them! "What can we tell the men?" he asked, making an effort to repress his chagrin. "We can only tell them what I'm telling you that we're helpless, till we've got the whole district organised.
The barbarities carried out in pursuance of the atrocious sentences of the Court of Star-Chamber were to him pleasant spectacles; and the bleeding and mutilated wretches, whom his accusations had conducted to the pillory, when brought back to their dungeons, could not escape his hateful presence worse to them, from his fiendish derision of their agonies, than that of the executioner.
"Seize and disarm yon stranger in the green mantle but slay him not. Bid the guard below find dungeons for his train. Quick! ere he reach the gate." Adrian had gained the open hall below his train and his steed were in sight in the court when suddenly the soldiery of the Colonna, rushing through another passage than that which he had passed, surrounded and intercepted his retreat.
The ruins are perhaps two hundred yards from the gate-house and the road, and the space between is a pasture for sheep, which also browse in the inner court, and shelter themselves in the dungeons and state apartments of the castle. Goats would be fitter occupants, because they would climb to the tops of the crumbling towers, and nibble the weeds and shrubbery that grow there.
In a little narrow corridor, near by, they showed us where many a prisoner, after lying in the dungeons until he was forgotten by all save his persecutors, was brought by masked executioners and garroted, or sewed up in a sack, passed through a little window to a boat, at dead of night, and taken to some remote spot and drowned.
"I know the place," replied the novelist, "one of the most beautiful corners of Rome! It is in the old Palais Piancini, a large mansion almost opposite the 'Calcographie Royale', where they sell those fantastic etchings of the great Piranese, those dungeons and those ruins of so intense a poesy! It is the Gaya of stone. There is a garden on the terrace.
Give the Earl at least fair warning: a prison, or fealty to thee, that is the choice before him! let him know it; let him see that thy dungeons are dark, and thy walls impassable. Threaten not his life brave men care not for that! threaten thyself nought, but let others work upon him with fear of his freedom.
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