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“Hush! Hush!” said Brank in a low, hurried tone. He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to their ear, and whispered “She’s under sentence of execution.”

“What for?” said Zimmer.

“Did you say ‘What a pity!’?” Brank asked.

“No, I didn’t,” said Zimmer: “I don’t think it’s at all a pity.”