Jules Verne Quotes

All Were Indiscriminately Condemned To Death; But One Out Of Three Only Were Really Executed. Ten Cannon Were Placed On The Drilling-ground, A Prisoner Fastened To Each Of Their Mouths, And Five Times Were The Ten Guns Fired, Covering The Plain With Mutilated Remains, In The Midst Of Air Tainted With The Smell Of Burning Flesh. These Men, As M. De Valbezen Says In His Book Called "Nouvelles Etudes Sur Les Anglais Et L'lnde," Nearly All Died With That Heroic Indifference Which Indians Know So Well How To Preserve Even In The Very Face Of Death. "No Need To Bind Me, Captain," Said A Fine Young Sepoy, Twenty Years Of Age, To One Of The Officers Present At The Execution; And As He Spoke He Carelessly Stroked The Instrument Of Death. "No Need To Bind Me; I Have No Wish To Run Away." Such Was The First And Horrible Execution, Which Was To Be Followed By So Many Others. At

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