His cause could not have been a bad one, seeing that he lost and gained it some seven or eight times before the same judges.

It assumed a deplorably bad complexion from the day the Count became my friend.
When once the discontented proceed from words to actions you may indeed pity them.
A person charged with a political offence summoned before the _Sacra Consulta_ (for everything is holy and sacred, even justice and injustice), must be defended by an advocate, not chosen by himself, against witnesses whose very names are unknown to him.
In the capital (and under the eyes of the French army) the extreme penalty of the law is rarely carried out.

The government is satisfied with quietly suppressing people, by shutting them up in a fortress for life.

The state prisons are of two sorts, healthy and unhealthy.

In the establishment coming within the second category, perpetual seclusion is certain not to be of very long duration.
The fortress of Pagliano is one of the most wholesome.