2013, ISBN: 1230264698

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[EAN: 9781230264691], Neubuch, [PU: Theclassics.Us, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: . CHAPTER XXXV. The Prison. In an Austrian Prison--and almost sentenced! I threw myself on the dirty bed, and could scarcely believe it all real. It half seemed as if it must be a dream. I went back over the examination step by step. I saw that the Judge seemed from the first, to have resolved on convicting me. He spoke too, of proofs, which if they were real, would be fatal to me. Perhaps he had bribed witnesses; or perhaps some of my many letters of introduction, contained expressions which would be twisted into evidence of a plot. I thought of where I might have answered better. Yet, on the whole, I had nothing to regret. I had come before the Court, not knowing the accusation, and had answered everything honestly and truly. It all looked hopeless enough. I knew they would be very glad to sentence an American. And who could ever know or hear of my being there? It came over me, as if all I had ever heard or read of these Austrian dungeons and secret Inquisitions was true--and true for me. Perhaps my Life--all that I had wished and hoped for--all that I had been preparing for, was to end here, to close in this mean, miserable way. I might die openly without much fear--but to be stifled in a dark hole in this manner! I thought, too, of a long imprisonment--that I should be rotting here the best years of my life. And there came over me a picture of myself returning home, rheumatic, broken in health--those I loved, dead, and all I knew, forgetting me--and my plans for life, utterly ruined. Then it seemed to me my reason would not bear this, and I remembered the young Hungarian, who had come out from this very prison after three years, a lunatic, and I felt sure, one year would do the same for me. The contrast, too, with my previous.<

ISBN: 1230264698

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