The country of The ring and the book . pale with long submer-sion in jail, the worthy judge laid about him right andleft like a mad giant with a sword. In a trice he foundall three of the accused guilty, and promptly sentencedPompilia to penal servitude for life and Signor Guillichinito five years confinement in the dungeons at Portoferrio,on the island of Elba, with the penalty of the galleys forthe same period of time. This latter was quite a severesentence for a gentleman who had done nothing morethan lie upon a bed of sickness and mutter from betweenthe sheets Bon voyage! to a runaway lady
The country of The ring and the book . pale with long submer-sion in jail, the worthy judge laid about him right andleft like a mad giant with a sword. In a trice he foundall three of the accused guilty, and promptly sentencedPompilia to penal servitude for life and Signor Guillichinito five years confinement in the dungeons at Portoferrio,on the island of Elba, with the penalty of the galleys forthe same period of time. This latter was quite a severesentence for a gentleman who had done nothing morethan lie upon a bed of sickness and mutter from betweenthe sheets Bon voyage! to a runaway lady. Thecommissioner generously allowed to both of the convictsfifteen days in which to appear and clear for Venerino, the governor decided that he benot prosecuted further and be liberated from deplorable cabman had surely had enough of thelaw, for he had been sweltering in jail the whole summerthrough, where he had gained such insight into thingsas to make him, no doubt, resolve never to let his fly 64 f «r*4. Guido Decides to Visit Rome be used again for the conveyance of young unmarriedpeople along the Perugia road at two oclock in themorning. This very Pantagruelian sentence needed to be con-firmed by the Chancery of the Criminal Court at Florence,and before that Court the matter came late in the judge who reviewed the case endorsed the verdictof guilty against the first two prisoners—the youngcountess and the gentleman who had been ill in bed ;but he seemed to have been shocked by the severityof their respective sentences, for he gave his decisionthat Guillichinis sentence to the galleys should be sub-ject to the pleasure of His Serene Highness, while, asthe countess was in Rome, secured in a sacred place,he decreed that all action with reference to her punish-ment should be suspended. Furthermore, the Court wasbenevolent enough to express the opinion that Venerino had done no voluntary evil. Above all this legal trumpeting the fact rema
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