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He regained the idea of his mission, in his death he saw the salvation of the world; the hideous spectacle spread at his feet melted from his sight, and profoundly united to his Father, he began upon the gibbet the divine life which he was to live in the heart of humanity through infinite years. Rest now in thy glory, noble pioneer! Thy work is achieved, thy divinity established.
Why didst thou take it?" "Yes why?" asked La Ramee. Grimaud, who held the piece of glass in his hand, said: "Sharp." "True, my lord!" exclaimed La Ramee. "Ah! deuce take it! we have a precious fellow here!" "Monsieur Grimaud!" said the duke, "for your sake I beg of you, never come within the reach of my fist!" "Hush! hush!" cried La Ramee, "give me your gibbet, my lord.
She owned the impeachment, and was ready to endure gibbet or stake for the truth of her talisman, more than a mesmerist would for the truth of his passes! And the charm was a scroll of gibberish sewn in an old bag and given to the woman in a freak by the judge himself when a young scamp on the circuit. But the charm cured? Certainly; just as mesmerism cures. Fools believed in it.
He himself slept peacefully, and snored aloud; yet my heart was sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the dark perils that environed, and the shameful gibbet that awaited him. I was wakened indeed, we were all wakened, for I could see even the sentinel shake himself together from where he had fallen against the door-post by a clear, hearty voice hailing us from the margin of the wood:
Who the villains were from whom you rescued the duke we have been as yet unable to ascertain, but there can be no doubt that their purpose was to murder him; indeed, preparations for hanging some one were found made this morning under the gibbet at Tyburn; and coupling this with a threatening letter received a few days ago by the duke, we suspect that they intended to put him thus ignominiously to death."
It was even suspected that he sent some persons to the gibbet solely because they had applied for the royal clemency through channels independent of him. Some courtiers nevertheless contrived to obtain a small share of this traffic. The ladies of the Queen's household distinguished themselves preeminently by rapacity and hardheartedness.
And, trembling, pale, and gasping for breath, he pointed to the gibbet at the other side of the yard, with the cynical inscription surmounting it. Gryphus broke out into a laugh. "Eh! eh!" he answered, "so, you have read it. Well, my good sir, that's what people will get for corresponding with the enemies of his Highness the Prince of Orange." "The brothers De Witt are murdered!"
The memory of his grandfather, the oft-sung John Van Wert, alone saved him from a gibbet; but he was imprisoned in the strong tower of Horn-op-Zee. There he remained until he was eighty-two years of age, savage, violent, and unconquered to the last; for we are told that he never ceased fighting and thumping as long as he could close a fist or wield a cudgel.
"A gibbet?" "Ay!" "But what is it for? What is it doing there?" "It is there to hang those they have taken, very like," the man answered, stupidly practical. And then other men came up, and stared at it and growled in their beards.
It may lighten and storm, Till it hunt the red worm From the grass where the gibbet is driven; But it can't hurt the dead, And it won't save the head That is doom'd to be rifled and riven. That must be a precious old song, he added with an oath, as he stopped short in a kind of wonder at himself.
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