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If he knew that I had admitted you, you would never leave this place alive. This is the Schusselburg of Finland the place of imprisonment for those who have conspired against the State." "The prison of political conspirators, eh?" "Alas, m'sieur, yes!
"We do not use the knout in the Russian prisons nowadays," he said briefly. "His Majesty has decreed its abolition." "But you adopt torture in Kajana and Schusselburg instead." "My time is too limited to discuss our penal system, m'sieur," he exclaimed impatiently, while I could well see that he was anxious to escape before I made any further charges against him.
The very mention of the modern Bastille on Lake Ladoga, where no prisoner has ever been known to come forth alive, is sufficient to cause any Russian to turn pale. And I was in the Schusselburg of Finland! I turned over the sheet of paper and wrote the question "Did Baron Oberg send you here?" In response, she printed the words "I believe so. I was arrested in Helsingfors. Tell Lydia where I am."
"In a week," he was saying to himself, "Lois Boriskoff shall be flogged in the Schusselburg." In truth, the whip was the weapon he liked best when women were to be schooled. Alban had never been abroad, and it would have been difficult for him to give any good account of his journey to Warsaw.
Paul, and in a subterranean dungeon at Schusselburg; about his exile to Siberia and his wonderful escape down the river Amour, on a Japanese coasting-vessel, and about his final arrival, by way of Yokohama and San Francisco, in London, whence he was directing all the operations of Nihilism. "'You see, she said, 'he is a thorough adventurer, and now all his adventures are over.
Paul; in a subterranean dungeon at Schüsselburg; about his exile to Siberia and his wonderful escape down the river Amour, on a Japanese coasting-vessel by way of Yokohama and San Francisco, and about his final arrival in London, whence he was directing all the operations of Nihilism. "'You see, she said, 'he is a thorough adventurer, and now all his adventures are over.
The place in which some of the poor creatures are tortured in order to obtain confessions and information with as much cruelty as in the black days of the Inquisition. These walls are thick, and their cries are not heard from the oubliettes below the lake." I had long ago heard of the horrors of Schusselburg. Indeed who has not heard of them who has traveled in Russia?
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