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Updated: June 4, 2025
After walking along the ramparts for some time, I was coming tranquilly home with my hands in my pockets, when I saw the street crowded with people. Such a crowd! like that for an execution. It fell upon me; I was seized, garroted, gagged, and guarded by the police.
Lajeunesse the blacksmith, Muroc the charcoal-man, and twenty others were as intent upon preserving a high standard of morality, by force of arms, as if another Tarquin were harbouring shame and crime in this cedar shed. The whole thing came home to Francois with a choking, smothering force. Art, now in its very birth in his heart and life, was to be garroted.
The criminals appear to be thoroughly well satisfied with their annual average, as shown by the periodical reports of their secretary, the statistician. A marked illustration occurs to me. Many years ago in London a well-known and respectable gentleman was brutally garroted. It was during the "silly season" between sessions of Parliament, when the newspapers are likely to be dull.
"I hope they'll be garroted! That's all! But it's just like the selfish beasts of men " "What difference does it make? Didn't Lyster agree to be host? It would be too dismal for Gwynne to roam through the purlieus with a policeman and he cannot come down often. It's bedtime, anyhow." "Bedtime?" cried Mrs. Paula. "Why, it's only ten o'clock.
In an instant one had garroted him with a choking grip, that almost strangled him, and prevented him uttering the slightest sound while the other grasped his rifle by the lock, so as to prevent the possibility of its being fired.
I might end by dangling from a gibbet, garroted, impaled, guillotined in your French fashion, I should not care a rap; but they should not have my head until I had crushed my enemies under my heel." Lucien was silent; he had no wish to draw the priest out any further.
The trial was a farce, the informer was garroted just when he was on the point of complaining that he was not receiving the pardon and payment which he had been promised for his services in convicting the others. The whole affair had an ugly look, and the way it was hushed up did not add to the confidence of the people in the justice of the proceedings.
Presently there came from the closet a sound of half-suppressed merriment, as if a constant succession of laughs were born there, full grown and boisterous, but were instantly garroted by some unknown power, until each one expired in a kind of choky giggle.
He went, and he did not come back. He was not indeed garroted as his friends had promised, but he was probably assassinated on the steamer by which he sailed from Santiago, for he never arrived in Havana, and was never heard of again. I now realize that I loved him, though I did as little to show it as men commonly do.
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