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He tried to think of Wells's mother but he did not dare to raise his eyes to Wells's face.
Once more, the two spectators started, as he turned upon her with a frightful suddenness.
Just as every sense is afflicted with a fitting torment, so is every spiritual faculty; the fancy with horrible images, the sensitive faculty with alternate longing and rage, the mind and understanding with an interior darkness more terrible even than the exterior darkness which reigns in that dreadful prison.
That old man says, all this was actually done to a prisoner who made an attempt on the life of the late King, Louis Fifteen.
