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Fiesco, by all the horrors of eternity! with my own hands I would have strangled myself, and on thy head spurted the venom of my departing soul. A princely crime may break the scale of human justice, but thou hast insulted heaven, and the last judgment will decide the cause. Now we have done. A good prince begins his reign with acts of mercy. Wilt thou release the galley-slaves?
I have never laughed so heartily as at Don Quixote assailed by the galley-slaves whom his generosity had set free." "I am sorry that you have such a bad opinion of your fellow-creatures. And by the way, tell me whether there is freedom in Venice." "As much as can be expected under an aristocracy. Our liberty is not so great as that which the English enjoy, but we are content."
Carpaccio's pictures floated before him, and Tintoretto's record of dead generations; and then, by the link of size, those even vaster paintings in gouache of Vermayen in Vienna: old land-fights with crossbow, spear, and arquebus, old sea-fights with inter-grappling galleys. He thought of galley-slaves chained to their oar the sweat, the blood that had stained history.
For in an age when books were few, so few, so precious, that they were often chained to their oaken shelves with iron chains, like galley-slaves to their benches, these men, with their laborious hands, copied upon parchment all the lore and wisdom of the past, and transmitted it to us.
Stephen Boldero asked in surprise. "Well, I was thinking that were it not for that we might manage to contrive some plan of escape in concert with the galley-slaves, get them down to the shore here, row off to the galley, overpower the three or four men who live on board her, and make off with her.
In old times, rowing used to be the penalty to which galley-slaves were condemned, but now it is commended by athletes as the best of all forms of exercise for developing the body and for furnishing stimulating competition. No President ever lived on better terms with the newspaper men than Roosevelt did.
Like other powers, they took prisoners, but instead of exchanging these in times of war and freeing them on return of peace, they made galley-slaves of them all, and held them to ransom. At all times there were hundreds of Christian slaves held in bondage.
It needs two overseers to drag a man's body up to the top deck; and if the men at the lower deck oars were left alone, of course they'd stop rowing and try to pull up the benches by all standing up together in their chains." "You've a most provident imagination. Where have you been reading about galleys and galley-slaves?" "Nowhere that I remember. I row a little when I get the chance.
Can I count you, Monsieur Gratillet, from to-day on as one of my staff?" "I desire no greater honor," replied Gratillet, his face beaming with joy. The galley-slaves were shipped from Chalons to Lyons. No accident marred the trip, and all the prisoners were in good humor, with the exception of Benedetto. Anselmo tried his best to arouse his comrade, but his efforts were fruitless.
On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floreal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves was put in chains at Bicetre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang.
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