Chapter

 1      XXV|       this moment, two hundred prisoners in the citadel, and among
 2      XXV|        together to examine the prisoners, preceded by a detachment
 3     XXVI|   Courtornieu were passing the prisoners in review.~ ~They numbered
 4    XXVII|      had been provided for the prisoners.~ ~Ropes stretched from
 5    XXVII|      The attitude of the other prisoners betrayed surprise rather
 6    XXVII|    threatened them.~ ~When the prisoners had taken their places,
 7    XXVII|       words. As it is, all the prisoners here will tell you that
 8    XXVII|        presented itself.~ ~The prisoners, ignorant of the charges
 9    XXVII|      friends of several of the prisoners, were in the hall.~ ~They
10    XXVII|       situation of each of the prisoners? we do not even know their
11    XXVII|      his place.~ ~Six or seven prisoners were actually granted time
12    XXVII|   defence of these twenty-nine prisoners lasted only one hour and
13    XXVII|      voice; “the three hundred prisoners in the citadel will swear
14    XXVII|        will swear to it; these prisoners here would say the same
15    XXVII|     returning.~ ~Of the thirty prisoners, nine were declared not
16     XXIX|       separated from the other prisoners?”~ ~“Yes, he is alone, in
17      XXX|    that ensued in removing the prisoners from the hall, the baron
18      XXX|      untried to dishonor their prisoners before delivering them to
19     XXXI|    they were bringing back, as prisoners, about twenty peasants.~ ~
20     XXXI|      recognized several of the prisoners in the gray light of dawn.
21    XXXII|      Then one of the condemned prisoners must have escaped. The guards
22    XXXII|     descents.~ ~To do this the prisoners had realized (since they
23    XXXII| Martial had provided them; the prisoners must have used them. And
24    XXXII|       a reprieve to six of the prisoners and at that very hour a
25   XXXIII|    single one of the condemned prisoners from the executioner.~ ~
26   XXXIII|    obtain a pardon for the six prisoners who had been reprieved.~ ~
27   XXXIII|       The twenty-one convicted prisoners must be executed.”~ ~That
28    XLVII|     intercourse with the other prisoners.~ ~“At length our detention
29     LIII|      troops had fired upon the prisoners, and Chupin had been killed
30       LV|       is better than assisting prisoners to carry on a surreptitious