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He came to say farewell; he had his own nest to feather, and could do a more profitable business in the lowlands than up here in the forest. Finally he offered Adam his property at a very low price. The smith had smiled at the jockey's proposal, still he went to the Richtberg the very next day to see the place. There stood the executioner's house, from which the whole street was probably named.
"Time for bed," added the figure with a sound that was like the falling of an executioner's axe. And, as if to emphasise the arrival of the remorseless moment, the clock just then struck loudly on the mantelpiece seven times. But for several minutes no one stirred. Hope, even at such moments, was stronger than machinery of clocks and nurses.
As he said this, Aubry, who had left them a moment before, returned. "The prisoners have come back. Citoyenne Dolores is with them in the Hall of the Condemned. She wishes to see you." "In the Hall of the Condemned!" repeated Antoinette. That terrible word rang in their ears like the thud of the executioner's axe.
Not many hours later, I, sleeping soundly in the straw, was wakened by the raising of the trap-door. Again a rope was let down. This time two of the Executioner's helpers slid down the dangling rope. They addressed me most deferentially and asked permission to prepare me to be hauled up, thereupon adjusting the ropes about me.
The officer became angry, and ordered their heads to be cut off. The executioner's sword was about to perform its office, when the wife cried out, "Sir, he is my husband. Do not kill him!" "Oh, oh," exclaimed the husband, overjoyed and clapping his hands, "you have lost the wager; go and shut the door."
I lay on a bench upon deck, hugging my executioner's sword, and faintly calling: "A basin please!" Two ruffians I can call them, nothing else paced the deck, smoking, and passed me every forty seconds. If there is a thing which tumbles a human being of a highly-strung nervous temperament over when he feels squeamish, it is the occasional whiff of a cigar.
"I was right to call you a coward," said Don John, slowly turning pale till his face was almost as white as the white silks and satins of his doublet. "Will you give me the letter you were reading when I came here?" "No." "Not to save yourself from the executioner's hands?" "No." "Not to save " Philip paused, and a frightful stare of hatred fixed his eyes on his brother.
There was considerable difficulty in drawing him away from that contemplation, but at length he turned round; and, at a signal which he gave, two men clad in yellow, the executioner's assistants, approached the gypsy to bind her hands once more.
This sentence, madame, you will learn at the very instant when the executioner's axe strikes you; unless, indeed, the fire of charity has so purified you in this life that you may pass, without any purgatory at all, straight to the home of the blessed who surround the throne of the Lord, there to receive a recompense for earthly martyrdom."
'I don't believe in too much playing to the pit and gallery, especially when the stalls are inclined to be disorderly. Make your hit with the executioner's axe, if need be. Don't mince matters it is better to mince them. 'But are you really so willing to part with your crown? It looks quite as comfortable as my cap feels, sighed Raymond.
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