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laws of health and authorized by the rules.
The Representatives were allowed nothing whatever. Isolation, close
confinement, silence, darkness, cold, "the amount of ennui which
engenders madness," as Linguet has said when speaking of the Bastille.
To remain seated on a chair all day long, with arms and legs crossed:
such was the situation. But the bed! Could they lie down?
No.
There was no bed.
At eight o'clock in the evening the jailer came into the cell, and
reached down, and removed something which was rolled up on a plank near
the ceiling. This "something" was a hammock.
The hammock having been fixed, hooked up, and spread out, the jailer
wished his prisoner "Good-night."
There was a blanket on the hammock, sometimes a mattress some two inches
thick. The prisoner, wrapt in this covering, tried to sleep, and only
succeeded in shivering.
But on the morrow he could at least remain lying down all day in his
hammock?
Not at all.
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