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Updated: July 8, 2025
They did not close again; the glassy eyeballs remained fixed. The doctor rose up and said, "He is dead." And he added, "He laughed; that killed him." "'Tis of little consequence," said the sheriff. "After confession, life or death is a mere formality." Then pointing to Hardquanonne by a gesture with the nosegay of roses, the sheriff gave the order to the wapentake,
And further, they shall deliver to every such person so enabled a letter containing the name of that person, witnessing that he is authorised to beg, and the limits within which he is appointed to beg, the same letter to be sealed with the seal of the hundred, rape, wapentake, city, or borough, and subscribed with the name of one of the said justices or officers aforesaid.
One day, a short time after his sermon to Gwynplaine, as he was looking out from the window in the wall which commanded the field, he became suddenly pale. "Gwynplaine?" "What?" "Look." "Where?" "In the field." "Well." "Do you see that passer-by?" "The man in black?" "Yes." "Who has a kind of mace in his hand?" "Yes." "Well?" "Well, Gwynplaine, that man is a wapentake." "What is a wapentake?"
Following the wapentake, there filed and opened out below the gateway in order, two by two, with the rigidity of a series of walking posts, ranks of silent men. This nocturnal procession stepped through the wicket in file, like a procession of penitents, without any solution of continuity, with a funereal care to make no noise gravely, almost gently.
"A corpse to be carried away to-night." The wapentake acquiesced by a nod. And the sheriff added, "The cemetery of the jail is opposite." The wapentake nodded again.
Lothrop is a good representative of this early New England fusion of race, temperament, fibre, conscience and brain. Lowthorpe is a small parish in the Wapentake of Dickering, in the East Riding of York, four and a half miles northeast from Great Driffield. It is a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry of York. This parish gave name to the family of Lowthrop, Lothrop, or Lathrop.
"He can still hear," said the doctor. "Can he see?" inquired the sheriff. The doctor answered, "He can see." On a sign from the sheriff, the justice of the quorum and the wapentake advanced. The wapentake placed himself near the head of the patient. The justice of the quorum stood behind Gwynplaine. The doctor retired a step behind the pillars.
A sound may be too sharp to be perceptible to the ear; an emotion too acute conveys no meaning to the mind. There is a limit to comprehension as well as to hearing. The wapentake and the justice of the quorum approached Gwynplaine and took him by the arms. He felt himself placed in the chair which the sheriff had just vacated. He let it be done, without seeking an explanation.
The wapentake preceded Gwynplaine by a few steps, never turning round or looking at him, in that icy ease which is given by the knowledge that one is the law. In death-like silence they both crossed the yard, went through the dark taproom, and reached the street. A few passers-by had collected about the inn door, and the justice of the quorum was there at the head of a squad of police.
So, half against his will, half of it because after he had done with the wapentake he had to do with Barkilphedro, and he had given a certain amount of consent to his abductions he had left the real for the chimerical; the true for the false; Dea for Josiana; love for pride; liberty for power; labour proud and poor for opulence full of unknown responsibilities; the shade in which is God for the lurid flames in which the devils dwell; Paradise for Olympus!
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