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At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English …
The first of the events which I must now relate was the conviction of The Prisoner for the murder of her husband. They had lived together in matrimony for little more than two years. The husband, a …
During my friend’s absence, my attention was claimed by a sad incident—not unforeseen. It is, I suppose, generally known that near relatives are admitted to take their leave of criminals condemned t…
The Prisoner was seated on her bed, quietly talking with the woman appointed to watch her. When she rose to receive us, I saw the Minister start. The face that confronted him would, in my opinion, ha…
The services of our medical officer were required, in order to hasten the recovery of the Prisoner’s senses. When the Doctor and I left the cell together, she was composed, and ready (in the perform…
The Minister looked at me in an absent manner; his attention seemed to have been wandering. “What was it Miss Chance said?” he asked. Before I could speak, a friend’s voice at the door interrupted u…
There was a considerate side to my friend’s character, which showed itself when the warder had left us. He was especially anxious to be careful of what he said to a woman in the Prisoner’s terrible …
The Capital Punishment of the Prisoner is in no respect connected with my purpose in writing the present narrative. Neither do I desire to darken these pages by describing in detail an act of righteo…
A few days after the good man had left us, I met with a serious accident, caused by a false step on the stone stairs of the prison. The long illness which followed this misfortune, and my removal af…
A week had passed, since the Minister’s wife had left me, when I received a letter from the Minister himself. After surprising me, as he innocently supposed, by announcing the birth of his child, he…
