- Author:
- Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
- Publication Info:
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New York:
Putnam,
1884,
pg 94
Text on page 94
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THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE,.
claimant in an ancient civil suit. No. 6 indicates a motley group of notaries, servants, attendants, lic-
water.
slime.
filth.
pavement
mud.
entrance.
Naam-Hoi Judgment Hall.
tors, alas! The table (No. 5) is of dark wood,covered with a shabby red cloth. On it are keys, petitions, note-books, pens and ink, an official seal, and some small cups containing tallies, wrhich are thrown down to indicate the number of blows which a culprit is to receive. This was all.
In a high-backed ebony arm-chair, such as might be seen in any English hall, sat the man who has the awful power of life and death in his hands. It is almost needless to say that the judge, who was on the left of the table, and who never once turned to the accused, or indeed to any one, was the only seated person. He was a young man, with fine features, a good complexion, and a high intellectual brow, and had I seen him under other circumstances,
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