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Updated: October 17, 2025
The informers were the natural but most accursed products of the Conventicle Acts. Popular abhorrence relieved itself by legends of the dreadful judgments which had overtaken these wretches. In St. Neots an informer was bitten by a dog. The wound gangrened and the flesh rotted off his bones. Well, so he did, and was as diligent in his business as most of them could be.
"Gentlemen," I replied, "you seem to have a great many solid scientific reasons for cutting off my hand; but one thing you have not got, and that is my consent. My hand is my own, and I am going to keep it." "Sir, it is certainly gangrened; by to-morrow the arm will begin to mortify, and then you will have to lose your arm."
Thus without fortune, or profession, without hope for the future, half-blind, with gangrened limbs that tottered under his feeble body, Vauvenargues started on the steadily downward path which was to lead in less than four years to his grave. History presents to us no more dolorous figure of physical and social failure, nor a more radiant example of moral success.
He was taken to see a son of the chief, who was suffering from a terrible ulcer in the small of his back, round which the flesh was gangrened, one of his knees being afflicted in the same way. The poor fellow was reduced to a skeleton, and apparently drawing very near to death. "I found the native physicians busy in practising their skill and art on the patient.
"As a rule he is crippled for life, isn't he? jaws broken, teeth smashed out? or legs mutilated, gangrened, presently cut off? or an eye knocked out, maybe both eyes?" "It is true, God knoweth it." "And if he is unpopular he can depend on dying, right there in the stocks, can't he?" "He surely can! One may not deny it."
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