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At the last minute the death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life and Cornelius was taken directly from the scaffold to the state prison of Loewestein near Dordrecht.
37 9 Machine, stop! Stop in machine, stop! is an imperative taken directly from the English. 37 10 plus rien: cf. notes to 13 1 and 4 23 Rien que: cf. 1 17. 37 19 Alger la blanche: 'Algiers, capital of Algeria, about 500 miles from Marseilles. For the epithet blanche, see next note.
It was therefore obvious to Her Majesty's Government that M. de Pontois could not have been instructed or authorized by the French Government to hold at Constantinople a language directly the reverse of that which had been held by the French Government everywhere else, and the more especially as the language held by M. Pontois is directly at variance with all the public and official declarations made by the French Government of the principles upon which the policy of France, with regard to the affairs of the Ottoman Empire, is founded.
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