arrest-orders

Updated: May 13, 2025

Who could have imagined that the giving and receiving of Denunciations, Arrest-orders, and Death-warrants the providing of its doomed human meal for the all-devouring guillotine could have been managed so coolly and quietly, with such unruffled calmness of official routine? "Now," said Lomaque, turning to the two men at the desk, as the door closed, "have you got those notes about you?"

Wilkie Collins - After Dark