The Romance of Escapes Studies of Some Historic Flights With a Personal Comment
The Romance of Escapes Studies of Some Historic Flights With a Personal Comment
Tighe Hopkins
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I cannot describe what was the character of this broken and breathless colloquy, or the shiver which ran through my frame when I heard Polish lips speaking, as a matter of course, of their fear of blows and of the rods. " Prince Gortchakov had given instructions that " a special watch must be kept upon Pietrowski, " and the inspector in consequence ordered him to work with chains on his feet. He had for overseer a convict who was branded on the forehead and on both cheeks ; and among his associ...ates were two murderers who, having lived through the punish- ment of the knout, were to end their days in Siberia. 148 FROM SIBERIA TO PARIS In his affecting and fascinating " Story of a Si- berian Exile " the young PoHsh noble is seen work- ing patiently with felons ; sweeping yards, drawing water, hewing wood for fagots and stacking the fagots in symmetrical piles ; ** and this last employ- ment in the open air, in the autumnal and winter months, in rain and snow, and in the icy tempera- ture of Siberia, was the most trying of any.
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