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When, therefore, the parchment which annulled his sentence was laid on the table of that assembly in which, eight years before, his face and his voice had been so well known, the excitement was great. One old Whig member tried to speak, but was overcome by his feelings. "I cannot," he said, "name my Lord Russell without disorder. It is enough to name him. I am not able to say more."
Some of them came to me, asking me to save them: though I was not related to the Horn family, they explained to me, that death on the wheel would throw into despair all that family, and everybody connected with it in the Low Countries, and in Germany, because in those parts there was a great and important difference between the punishments of persons of quality who had committed crimes; that decapitation in no way influenced the family of the decapitated, but that death on the wheel threw such infamy upon it, that the uncles, aunts, brothers, and sisters, and the three next generations, were excluded from entering into any noble chapter, which, in addition to the shame, was a very injurious deprivation, annihilating the family's chance of ecclesiastic preferment; this reason touched me, and I promised to do my best with M. le Duc d'Orleans to obtain a commutation of the sentence.
He could tell me not only the names and titles of the nobility and gentry, but the names of their families, where many of them were educated, to whom they were married, and many other particulars of their private history. His sentence was three years, and I believe he got it something in this way.
Hannah, gathering up the rest of the dishes, disappeared into the kitchen, but presently returned, as though she had forgotten something. "Hadn't you better go after her?" she said to Janet. "I'm afraid it won't be any use. She's got sort of queer, lately she thinks they're down on her." "I'm sorry I spoke so sharp. But then " Hannah shook her head, and her sentence remained unfinished.
Sogrange, who was standing talking to Peter before the library window, suddenly broke off in the middle of a sentence. He stepped back into the room and gripped his friend's shoulder. "It is the Baroness!" he exclaimed, quickly. "What does she want here?" "The Baroness who? Peter demanded. "The Baroness von Ratten. You must have heard of her she is the friend of Bernadine."
It was the last decree, the irrevocable sentence, the absolute end: and I had not yet reached half the Psalmist's span; I had not yet forgotten the lost summer mornings when the breeze scented with lilac came blowing through the casement, bearing with it the sound of glad voices welcoming the day.
"One sentence I remember exactly: 'H., she wrote, 'has friends in Sicily, and he feels assured of a kind reception at their hands." "Friends!" interrupted Brett. "That means brigands!" "The information seemed to annoy the Turks very much. They were very angry at what they described as the enforced delay, and discussed with Gros Jean the quickest means of reaching Palermo forthwith.
During the first term, no person was to be allowed to visit him. The knowledge of such a sentence was a dreadful blow to Mrs. Warburton. She parted from him in the court-room, on the day of his sentence, and for three long, weary years, her eyes saw him not again.
'I really don't know. I had not time to ask a lawyer's opinion, and so I had to be satisfied with my doctor's. 'Are you going to tell Mr. Van Torp what you've done? 'I don't know. Why should I? You may if you like. Logotheti was eating a very large and excellent truffle, and after each short sentence he cut off a tiny slice and put it into his mouth.
He would have started for the African coast, and, once there, who can tell to what dangers, to what treachery, he would have been exposed? A single word about Cousin Benedict. The very day of his arrival the worthy savant, after having shaken hands with Mr. Weldon, shut himself up in his study and set to work, as if finishing a sentence interrupted the day before.
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