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He gave them a notion of what the rapture of a man reprieved from death might be, and he was as radiantly happy in the ill health which had got him his release as if it had been the greatest blessing of heaven.
Cross! You know how stupid I was last night? The coming storm well it was a silly note, and you will return it." "Oh, of course, if you wish me to," she answered carelessly, but clenching her hands. "C'est une boutade comme une autre!" He laughed again. His spirits were flying upwards like those of a criminal unexpectedly reprieved. "Yes just a fad. Hi, cabbee, stop here, will you?"
The actual fact was, that out of a large number of prisoners taken red-handed in the act of armed rebellion who were condemned to death after trial by court-martial, the great majority were reprieved, and thirteen in all were executed. Whether such measures deserved the frightful description coined by Mr.
Wetherell could only stare at him like a man who, with the halter about his neck, has been suddenly reprieved. But Jethro Bass did not appear to be waiting for thanks. He cleared his throat, and had Wetherell not been in such a condition himself, he would actually have suspected him of embarrassment. "Er Wetherell?" "Yes?" "W-won't say nothin' about the mortgage p-pay it when you can."
It came over her that she had encountered, wholly by accident, this gloomy convoy, and that before her, beseeching her for a reprieve, begging for a mere day and night more of life, knelt her inveterate, furtive enemy. She raised her hand and looked the executioner full in the eyes. "Send him back," she commanded. "He is reprieved until this hour to-morrow."
"It's I who was reprieved." A long silence followed. Along the whole line of the manned stockade the whisperings had ceased. The vibrations of the gong had died out, too. Only the watchers perched in the highest boughs of the big tree made a slight rustle amongst the leaves. "What are you thinking of, Captain Lingard?" d'Alcacer asked in a low voice. Lingard did not change his position.
Captain Bezan had been reprieved; and, probably, in fear of this very thing, the general of the division had taken upon himself to set the time of execution one hour earlier than had been announced to Tacon-a piece of villany that had nearly cut off the young soldier from the clemency that the governor had resolved to extend to him at the very last moment, when the impressiveness of the scene should have had its effect.
"But the Lord has his instruments," said Bowen, grimly; "and I swear to you, madam, that if you succeed in getting that murderer reprieved, I will be the instrument of the Lord's vengeance." "Oh, don't say that," pleaded the lady. "Your signature would have such an effect. You were noble once and saved him from lynching; be noble again and save him from the gallows." "I shall certainly not sign.
"The Queen of the Island reprieves you," said he, and put down the terrapin, which went off very leisurely for a reprieved reptile. Then Hazel produced a fine bream, which he had found struggling in a rock-pool, the tide having turned, and three sea crayfish, bigger than any lobster.
I afterwards was informed that I had been reprieved, that I had been sent for, and a long exhortation delivered to me, for it was considered that my life must have been one of error, or I should have applied to my friends, and have given my name.
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