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Updated: July 2, 2025
There was a delightful sense of irresponsibility upon him, such as they feel who walking among their fellow-men know that the death-sentence of disease is upon them, and, seeing that fear is but waste of the little time left, are riotously happy. The days passed without event.
The last words referred to the Delicate topic of Alexis, Peter's son by his first marriage, who was now a prisoner awaiting his death-sentence in the Peter-Paul Fortress. He was accused of having endeavoured to hinder his father's work in the civilisation of Russia, and was suspected of having taken part in plots of rebellion.
The grinning skulls of the Chief Justice of that kingdom and of the boldest and noblest advocates and defenders of the national liberties, exposed for years in the market-place, with the record of their death-sentence attached, informed the Spaniards, in language which the most ignorant could read, that the crime of defending a remnant of human freedom and constitutional law was sure to draw down condign punishment.
A few weeks later Senior-lieutenant Reimers had a consultation with the surgeon-major, Dr. Andreae. "What you tell me, doctor," he said at the end, "is very much like a death-sentence, so far as a man's domestic happiness is concerned. He must never hope to found a family?" "No," replied Andreae; "a decent man does not marry under such circumstances.
With hasty hand he seized the letter, and motioned to Peter to retire. But as soon as he was alone, and was about to break the seal, he drew back and hesitated. This letter might, indeed, contain his salvation; but it might also contain his death-sentence.
If both of these assumptions were true, he had just heard the death-sentence of every Terran on Ullr. The first he did not for a moment doubt. The reasons for making it were too good. He dismissed it from further consideration and concentrated on the second. "... what's known as a Nagasaki-type bomb, the first type of plutonium-bomb developed," Paula was saying.
There was such hopeless woe upon it indeed one might have almost supposed, by the expression of his face, he was waiting for his death-sentence to be pronounced instead of a marriage ceremony, which was to give him the queenly heiress of Whitestone Hall for a bride." "Perhaps there is some hidden romance in the life of handsome Rex the world does not know of," suggested Grace, sagely.
After what Koupriane had confided to him of things that had happened in this house, he had not hesitated to risk everything on that audacious decision, but all the same, all the same these stories of Nihilists who appear at the end of a meal, death-sentence in hand, they haunted him, they upset him. Certainly it had been a piece of foolhardiness to dismiss the police!
He paused as if to take breath: then "Three!" he exclaimed, in the tone of a man pronouncing a death-sentence; and the handkerchief fell. There were two reports in quick succession. Varhely stood erect in his position; Menko's ball had cut a branch above his head, and the green leaves fell fluttering to the ground. Michel staggered back, his hand pressed to his left side.
Multnomah lifted his right hand. There was breathless suspense. What would it be? Fixing his eyes on the armed malcontents who were waiting to spring, he clinched his hand and made a downward gesture, as if striking a blow. It was the death-signal, the death-sentence. In an instant a deafening shout rang through the grove, and the bloodthirsty mob surged forward to the massacre.
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