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Secret Police In Russia

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is a lady still living', who was stopping out of her carriage in her bnll dre.-'s, when 3he was quietly handed into n slcdge: her destinntion was Siberia. When tha long jonrney was aceompliehed, she was lÖcfciè'd - lie knew not in what región of the govemmcnt - in a hut cont&imng two rooms, each divided : Trom eaah other, and leading into two separate yards, oach a few paces square, and surrounded by a high wal), whch only admitted the light of heaven. A sentinel was mounting jyuard outsido tho wall; her coarse food was brought by a silent jailor, auc! hore she remaiDed for two years. At the expiration of this term, the door of the yard was one day opened, and a prieoiier was thrust in to her, who turncd out to be a Polish noblenmrh, who had been long confined in tha adjoining cell, but was removed tomake room for another. In this room or den, eho lived with her unfortnnátc companion for twolv'e years or more, ignorant alike of the spot of earth ehe was inhabiting, and of the canso of her being banished thiüier. One morning her door was thrown open, and a voice called for number so-and-so, by which in the rare intervals of niontliB and even ycars elaping betwoen the occasions on which her jailor answered her or .poke to her, they had been accustomed to addrees her. She stepped forvvard; - the door was closed ; without even having time to take leave of her companion, whom she never saw again, she waa hurried into a eledge, she retraced the journey of many months, and ono night found herself in the office of tho grand master of pólice: a Iittle cupboard was thrown open, and she was presented with the ïdentical ball-dress which had been taken t'rom her on the night of her exile; thejewcls wero indeed g"one, but there was not a bow, a flower or a piece of lace of its blackened and faded frippery wanting; even tiie withered noseway and the fan, in which a long generation of spiders or brown beelles had nest led, were carefully restored to her, She was thenceforward at übertv.Tilia lady never knev the cnuse of her punishnient, or of its cessation. "And did jou never mukc, the inquiry?"' What be so long n Siberia, and not yct havo leurned discretion! "And what was said on your re np peurance into society?" .Nolhing - those who had lciiown me formerly made no coinmentí to thosc who nquired, Where is f=he from7 - whce has she alwaya lived? it was simply answered. "Madam dtmevre depuis braucaiip tTannees svr ses terree.1 "She has long been burred nmidst her eetates.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News