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Note 6 — Section 165. RUSSIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS IN BANISHMENT. I.

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[1] des Gouvernements Archangel.

[2] most of them, meistens; sent = sent there; without trial = without any trial, ohne jegliches Verhör.

[3] Say liter. ‘of whom even but (nur) few know’.

[4] Here follows ‘for instance’; with = in company of.

[5] Say ‘und trennt sich von ihm nach’, etc.

[6] auf.

[7] noch an demselben Abend.

[8] aufs höchste erschrocken.

[9] to hasten to inquire the cause, sich eiligst nach der Ursache erkundigen.

[10] everybody = that all.

[11] Supply ‘are’ (sich befinden) before ‘as’.

[12] über die Sache.

[13] receive — answers = are vaguely (in unbestimmter Weise, which place after government) answered by (S. 106, N. 23) the government.

[14] auf.

[15] = that follow one another (auf einander folgen).

[16] = in the hope.

[17] in.

[18] zu schauen (App. § 1); face, Angesicht, n.

[19] let it be = be it even.

[20] in — dock, vor den Schranken des Gerichts.

[21] = whilst.

[22] and watch = and attentively watch (bewachen) everything.

[23] Insert the adv. schon after the subject; en route for = on the way to.

[24] Dort angekommen; ‘routine’, here = treatment; the words ‘the same’ are to be placed at the end of the clause.

[25] whatever — sex, welches Verbrechens der Gefangene auch eingeklagt und welches Alters und Geschlechts er auch sei.

[26] the — ward = yet (so ... doch) he is always taken (= conducted) to (in) the police-ward (Polizeiwache, f.).

[27] a — women = that consists of (aus) a miserable block-house of (aus) two divisions, one of which is appointed for men and the other for women.

[28] beschrieben, p. p.

[29] of — predecessors = of the former (früher, adj.) youthful inhabitants of the same (to agree with room).

[30] pencilled, mit Bleistift gezeichnet, which use attributively.

[31] bear — themselves = prove the intensity (Größe, f.) of the confidence in themselves (Selbstvertrauen, n.).

[32] ‘to begin’, here an´treten, sep. comp. str. v. tr.; life in exile = banishment.

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