240 "VERY distinguished society.” 
these do not bring their families when ordered 
to Dilly. The social advantages are therefore 
very small, but the town can boast some remark- 
able personages. Madame amused us greatly 
one evening by counting them off on the leaves 
of her fan. " There is a man who was banished 
here for stirring up insurrection ; he with the 
light coat, whom we passed when driving, mur- 
dered his wife ; the middle one of those three 
walking on the beach caused the death of sixteen 
people ; and there is another here who commit- 
ted an extraordinary forgery. Id on rencontre 
une socUte trhs distinguie.” The penalty of 
crimes which in the mother country merit 
capital punishment, is frequently paid simply 
in banishment to some distant dependency, 
where the perpetrators have at least the miti- 
gation of freedom. But what a living death for 
fiery spirits to wear out life in the exile of 
Dilly I Such a fate seems the refinement of 
torture. 
