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But tell me, Panther, has he not confessed already?
There are tacit confessions; silence is a confession." "But, General, he is not silent; he keeps on squealing like a pig that he is innocent." "Panther, the confessions of a guilty man sometimes result from the vehemence of his denials.

To deny desperately is to confess.

Pyrot has confessed; we must have witnesses of his confessions, justice requires them." There was in Western Penguinia a seaport called La Cirque, formed of three small bays and formerly greatly frequented by ships, but now solitary and deserted.

Gloomy lagoons stretched along its low coasts exhaling a pestilent odour, while fever hovered over its sleepy waters.
Here, on the borders of the sea, there was built a high square tower, like the old Campanile at Venice, from the side of which, close to the summit hung an open cage which was fastened by a chain to a transverse beam.