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"Mada what he said, "you are kind"

"Aned your death-warrant"

"Probably it would have been at the risk of your own life to refuse?"

"Nothing of the kind! Not one of then fifty death-warrants! Now, am I kind?"

"Very likely it would have a in the end--they

would kill ned it or not; so what does it matter?"

"You are ht, if

I had not signed it They would have let you live until their next

ht week; and I would have incurred

neither risk nor danger by refusing"

Sir Nored his shoulders

"I do not know that that prospect isthan the present

one Even death is preferable to a week's imprisonht have escaped"

"Madame, look at this stone floor, that stone roof, these solid walls,

that barred and round--cannot perform impossibilities, and then ask yourself how?"