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Updated: September 4, 2025
Felix de Châteauneuf, in Viverais, who had been condemned for life for having given shelter to a pastor, was released in 1765, at the age of sixty-seven, after being chained at the galleys for twenty-five years. Jean Raymond, of Fangères, the father of six children, who had been a galley-slave for thirteen years, was liberated in 1767.
"I love to see you doing the galley-slave," she said. "I know you hate it, you poor old Bear." But Merefleet did not hate his work. He sat facing her throughout the afternoon, gazing to his heart's content on the perfect picture before him. He wore his hands to blisters, and the sun beat mercilessly down upon him. But he felt neither weariness nor impatience, neither regret nor surliness.
This is why: Lousteau lived by his pen. In this century, especially since the triumph of the bourgeoisie the commonplace, money-saving citizen who takes good care not to imitate Francis I. or Louis XIV. to live by the pen is a form of penal servitude to which a galley-slave would prefer death.
And none wept more convincingly that the little maid Enrichetta, an orphan of tender years whom the lady had taken into her service as an act of charity and forthwith set to work like a galley-slave. The child was convulsed with sobs.
Johannot made the case of Fabre known to some French officers whom he met at Frankfort, interested them greatly in his noble character and self-sacrifice, and the result was that before long Fabre obtained, directly from the Duc de Choiseul, leave of absence from the position of galley-slave.
"Galley-slave or not, I have kept silent, and will do so further." "You are a hero! Nevertheless, you can tell me the name." "No!" "And if I demand it?" "I won't tell you, either." "Anselmo, have a care!" hissed Benedetto, angrily. "Tell me the name, or " "I am silent," declared Anselmo; "you do not know the name, and you will never learn it from me." Benedetto broke into a coarse laugh.
If any one learned who he was, it was through himself. In this avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it is a shelter. A false name is security, and he had rejected that false name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an honest family; he had withstood this temptation.
In high places and low, in Clubs and on 'Change, at church or the balls and routs of the nobility and gentry, how dreadful it is for benevolent beings like you and me to have to think these undiscovered though not unsuspected scoundrels are swarming! What is the difference between you and a galley-slave? Is yonder poor wretch at the hulks not a man and a brother too?
"Not a bit; but it will prove to them that there are more in the house than they think for; and we can frighten some of them by telling them that the soldiers are near at hand." Jack immediately threw up the casement, and called out in a loud voice, "Don Silvio! galley-slave! Don Silvio!"
But now, if he was expected to lug that great heavy boat back by himself, not only would he not get that, but the chances were he would get locked out for chapel altogether, and it would be no excuse that he had had to act as galley-slave for Bloomfield or anybody else. "Look alive!" cries Bloomfield from the bank, where he is already stripped for his header.
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