death-verdict

Updated: May 9, 2025

All wore solemn faces of a jury bringing in a death-verdict. Paiere nodded to a volunteer janitor, who insisted upon my occupying a chair he brought. Every one else was on the floor on mats, in two squares or separate divisions. Babies lay at their mothers' extended feet, and others ran about the room in silence.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.