"So the gardener
tattled? Oh, fie! fie!"
"Nonsense, the gardener! We don't need the gardener for that. The
petition has come from the king's cabinet to the office of the Home
Secretary, which sent it through the county to the parish, that we
might give a report of your mental condition. From your petition, you
are believed to be insane, and that is fortunate, or you would be
punished for contempt of court."
Panna clenched her teeth till the grinding sound could be heard, and
obstinately persisted in her silence.
"Of course I know that your head is clear, only your heart is hardened,
and I will pray to God that He may soften it. Herr von Abonyi is a
very different Christian. You need not look at me so angrily, what I
say is true. You know that he has great and powerful friends; it would
cost them only a word, and he would be pardoned. They wished to appeal
to the king in his behalf, but he would not permit them to take a step
for him. He repents his deed, he has received a just punishment, and
he wished to endure this sentence to the final moment.
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