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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...swords, and the tread of their heavy boots upon the stone floor. It appeared to Macaire that the wretched malefactor struggled violently with the police-officers, and clung to the iron bars of his window, as if such vain resistance could succeed in doing aught more than prolonging his miserable existence for a few short minutes. At length the door of his cell was opened, and the municipal guards dragged the condemned one into the long gallery, through which his yells echoed with appalling din. An attenuated imagination might for a moment have supposed that that prison contained the dread dungeons of the Inquisition, and that the question by water or the punishment of the rack was being applied to some miserable victim of popish superstition and religious tyranny. At length the cries and the sounds of the soldiers' heavy boots became more faint; and in a short time they ceased altogether. But as Macaire listened attentively, in order to catch an idea of the proceedings, and to ascertain if a reprieve had arrived for the miserable man, he heard the noise of horses' hoofs and of the wheels of a cart, which moved rapidly away from the court of the Palace of Justice. No doubt then remained in his mind that the last penalty of the law would be carried into execution, and that another hour would mark the termination of the sufferings of one of his fellow-creatures. Shortly after the departure of the convict for the place of execution, the gaoler entered Macaire's room, and inquired how he had slept. Having received a satisfactory answer, he demanded whether "Monsieur would prefer receiving the prison allowance in his own room, or order breakfast to be sent into him from a neighbouring coffee-house?" "Discard all those base and...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236128713
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 166
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236128710
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 308 gr


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