 ... scene, the scene of death, for I verily believed I should be led to instant execution : why should the mockery of a trial be given to one so steeped in crime as I was ? A short time after our arrival at the town, I was conducted, closely guarded,...  Confessions of a Thug - Page 400by Meadows Taylor - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Meadows Taylor - 1920 - 562 pages
...The English officer before whom Ameer Ali is taken at Saugor may or may not be meant for Sleeman : ' A tall, noble-looking person he was, and from the...come, and that ere night I should cease to exist.' In the Introduction to the Thug, dated July 1839, Taylor quotes a passage ' from Colonel Sleeman's... | |
 | Caroline Reitz - 2004 - 150 pages
...the hero of Taylor's novel, describes a superintendent, who is believed to be modeled on Sleeman, as a "tall, noble-looking person he was, and from the...severe glance he cast on me I thought my hour was come" (330). The unarmed but unshaken detective, whose "compelling force" is not a gun or a baton but the... | |
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