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Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

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LITERARY COMPETITION

... nails into something that can feel, don't you A ty know, from the knock, without being told I It's ?? only putting up a scaffold at the gaol gates; ho that's aill. a And why ? said Hilda. In Y, oYa see there's one of our prisoners to lose he us his ...

HAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH LITERARY COMPETITION

... she said wit samex heat, ia 'flh. eet rmy heart; upon it, if I do not rmarry him ib itlwl be mydeath, and don't kill me, uncle, don t lie, kill in.; tht jusit tA abs -bad ?? these a am words she heard a fire-arm discharged very near her, at which she started ...

OUR PRIZE STORIES

... I leirued that a revolution had broken bq no out at Buenios Ayres. The paper contained a r( led list of those who had been killed iu the first h- us, struggle between the revolutionists and the ci is, Govermtiett troops. Anioteg the nuames of revolu- g ...

OUR PRIZE STORIES

... she knew- nothing but that-it was that Louis, her son Louis, had tried to kill himself; his courage had failed at the thought of meeting his fate with the others on the scaffold. And then to this mother, ?? heart was full of anguish, and who was suffering ...

OUR LITERARY COMPETITION

... moment ior repentance. - It vwould kill hin--' -'Then, responds the ntau bitterly, ''it seems sh it is his old life or my yourw one, for I swear that lI if I do not leave this place 'with your promise 1sa will kill myselr, th, , Ah: No! No! so -hou ...

THE VEILED WOMAN

... es of his arrest and ecndemnationi for the murder, and reckoning frc the time betwveen the furmuer and ills march to the scaffold. Alrmost for the first time he thoulght with pity CT of young Greytiorre, who had beeii condenkned in his stead, and remn ...

LEGALLY DEAD; OR A LOST BIRTHRIGHT

... at practising or carrying Out his OWIt precepts. Thie evidence was very strong, sane a would have brought most men to the scaffold. Ia call it a eonfounded shanie that a fellow like Sir a JBlaseGreville shouod be permitted, after under. t ieoia- cterm ...

BLACK BLOOD:

... 1for Canl you not see, mant-can you not grasp the truth ? I meant him to turn out thief or fiurderer, and end his days on scaffold, or as a, transported felon, and ask you to see him off. 'But rate helped me as man was never helped before. The scoundrel ...

LITERARY COMPETITION

... execution Avas in this manner. The prisons, tee being brought to the scaffold by the bailif, the toc he was drawn u11 by a pullev and fastened with a of to the side of the scaffold, 'te bailiff, the jU rs, in and tle mntister chosen by the prisoer being ...

A DARK DESTINY

... SPY rC do CHAPTER I. ti CLEARING TIHE WAY. iv On the 21st of January, 1793, the unfortunate S' Louis XVI. expiated upon the scaffold the crimes ti and follies of his predecessors. M liver since the terrible 10th of August of the i previous year, when the ...

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... ii seen the hlouses of the two omln, but their atten- II I tion was not so iniioll directed to these houses nS a i to the scaffold on which lic, who but a few hours 1. ; previolusly hadl proudly walked along the road | bearing thle highest hono-urs in ...

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... mec; if I do not get to her she Ino will starve, or ha captured. Think,C'a mother's Ie gray hair dabbled with the blood of a scaffold. a Say, are not the streets yet perilius to one of my un happy class? Do you still bid mue go? p Franeoise hesitated. tl ...