Volume VI Part 32 (2/2)
I found stones, and lighted by five or six narrow slits in the walls The officer told ht once a day, as no one was allowed to coht
”How about lights?”
”You h, as books are not allowed When your dinner is brought, the officer on duty will open the pies and the poultry to see that they do not contain any docuo out”
”Have these orders been given for my especial benefit?”
”No, sir; it is the ordinary rule You will be able to converse with the sentinel”
”The door will be open, then?”
”Not at all”
”How about the cleanliness of e of your dinner, and he will attend to your wants for a trifle”
”May I a architectural plans with the pencil?”
”As h to order soht for me?”
”With pleasure”
The officer seemed to pity me as he left me, and bolted and barred the heavy door behind which I saw asentry with his bayonet fixed The door was fitted with a sot my paper and ed a fork in the other dishes so as to make sure that there were no papers at the bottom
My dinner would have sufficed for six people I told the officer that I should bewith ave ht have the newspapers
It was a festival tiood ith them; and consequently these poor felloere fir forout, for the waiter from the inn was never allowed to approach eon, where I was imprisoned for forty-two days, I wrote in pencil and without other reference than my memory, my refutation of Amelot de la Houssaye's ”History of the Venetian Governmanner:
While I was at Warsaw an Italian named Tadini came to Warsaw He had an introduction to Tomatis who commended hiive hi well off in those days I could only give hiood words and a cup of coffee when he chanced to come about my breakfast-time
Tadini talked to everybody about the operations he had performed, and condemned an oculist who had been at Warsaw for twenty years, saying that he did not understand how to extract a cataract, while the other oculist said that Tadini was a charlatan who did not kno the eye was ed me to speak in his favour to a lady who had had a cataract reain a short time after the operation
The lady was blind of the one eye, but she could see with the other, and I told Tadini that I did not care to meddle with such a delicate matter
”I have spoken to the lady,” said Tadini, ”and I have mentioned your name as a person ill answer for ; in such a matter I would not stand surety for the ”
”But you know I am an oculist”
”I know you were introduced to me as such, but that's all As a professional man, you should not need anyone's commendation, you should be able to say, 'Operibus credite' That should be your motto”