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He would sing his songs unto you,

As a singer and magician.

“He would sing the sea to honey,

And to peas would sing the gravel,

And to malt would sing the seasand,

And to salt would sing the gravel,

Forest broad would sing to cornland,

And the wastes would sing to wheatfields,

Into cakes would sing the mountains,

And to hens’ eggs change the mountains.

“As a singer and magician,

He would speak, and he would order,

And would sing unto this homestead,

Cowsheds ever filled with cattle,

Lanes o’erfilled with beauteous blossoms,

And the plains o’erfilled with milch-kine,

Full a hundred horned cattle,

And with udders full, a thousand.

“As a singer and magician,

He would speak and he would order

For our host a coat of lynxskin,

For our mistress cloth-wrought dresses,

For her daughters boots with laces,

And her sons with red shirts furnish.

“Grant, O Jumala, thy blessing,

Evermore, O great Creator,

Unto those we see around us,

And again in all their doings,

Here, at Pohjola’s great banquet,

This carouse at Sariola held,

That the ale may stream in rivers,

And the mead may flow in torrents,

Here in Pohjola’s great household,

In the halls at Sariola built,

That by day we may be singing,

And may still rejoice at evening

Long as our good host is living,

In the lifetime of our hostess.

“Jumala, do thou grant thy blessing,

O Creator, shed thy blessing,

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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 2—Delivery up of persons subject to criminal proceedings, &c. Part 3—Other delivery proceedings (5) Where the Secretary of State directs that the other delivery proceedings shall be discontinued, the court before which the proceedings are pending or in progress shall—
 * (a) order their discontinuance, and
 * (b) make any other order necessary to enable the delivery order under this Part of this Act to be executed (including any necessary order as to the custody of the person concerned).

(6) The discontinuance under this paragraph of other delivery proceedings in respect of an offence does not prevent the institution of fresh proceedings for a delivery order in respect of the offence.

Delivery proceedings in Scotland

13 (1) Where—
 * (a) the Secretary of State receives a request from the ICC for the arrest and surrender, or provisional arrest, of a person, and
 * (b) other delivery proceedings against that person are pending or in progress before a court in Scotland,

the Secretary of State shall consult the ICC and the relevant International Tribunal.

(2)The Secretary of State shall inform the Scottish Ministers of the request and of the outcome of the consultations and they shall inform the court.

(3) The court shall (if necessary) adjourn the proceedings before it, for such period or periods as it thinks fit, so as to enable proceedings to be taken to determine whether a delivery order should be made.

(4) If a delivery order is made and the other delivery proceedings are still pending or in progress, the Secretary of State shall consult the ICC before giving directions for the execution of the order.

Power to suspend or revoke previous delivery order

14 (1) Where a court makes a delivery order under this Part of this Act in respect of a person in respect of whom a delivery order has been made under—
 * (a) the United Nations (International Tribunal) (Former Yugoslavia) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/716), or
 * (b) the United Nations (International Tribunal) (Rwanda) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1296),

the court may make any order necessary to enable the person to be delivered up under this Part of this Act.

(2)The court may, in particular, suspend or revoke the other delivery order. Rh

Article 55 Rights of persons during an investigation 1 In respect of an investigation under this Statute, a person:


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54 Schedule 3—Rights of persons during investigation: article 55 :(a) Shall not be compelled to incriminate himself or herself or to confess guilt;
 * (b) Shall not be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
 * (c) Shall, if questioned in a language other than a language the person fully understands and speaks, have, free of any cost, the assistance of a competent interpreter and such translations as are necessary to meet the requirements of fairness; and
 * (d) Shall not be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention, and shall not be deprived of his or her liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedures as are established in this Statute.

2 Where there are grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court and that person is about to be questioned either by the Prosecutor, or by national authorities pursuant to a request made under Part 9, that person shall also have the following rights of which he or she shall be informed prior to being questioned:
 * (a) To be informed, prior to being questioned, that there are grounds to believe that he or she has committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
 * (b) To remain silent, without such silence being a consideration in the determination of guilt or innocence;
 * (c) To have legal assistance of the person’s choosing, or, if the person does not have legal assistance, to have legal assistance assigned to him or her, in any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment by the person in any such case if the person does not have sufficient means to pay for it; and
 * (d) To be questioned in the presence of counsel unless the person has voluntarily waived his or her right to counsel.

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Nomination of court to supervise taking of evidence

1 (1) Where the Secretary of State receives a request from the ICC for assistance in obtaining evidence as to the identity of a person, he may nominate a court in England and Wales or Northern Ireland to supervise the taking of the person’s fingerprints or a non-intimate sample (or both).

(2) He shall not do so unless—
 * (a) he is satisfied that other means of identification have been tried and have proved inconclusive, and
 * (b) he has notified the ICC of that fact and the ICC has signified that it wishes to proceed with the request.

Order to provide evidence

2 (1) The nominated court may order the taking by a constable of the person’s fingerprints or a non-intimate sample (or both).


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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 4—Taking of fingerprints or non-intimate samples (2) In the case of a non-intimate sample—
 * (a) the sample must be a sufficient sample within the meaning of section 65 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60) or, in Northern Ireland, Article 53 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I.12)), and
 * (b) section 63A(2) of that Act or, in Northern Ireland, Article 63A(2) of that Order applies as to the manner of taking the sample.

(3) In the following provisions of this Schedule “the necessary identification evidence” means the fingerprints or sample (or both) required by the order of the nominated court.

Requirement to attend and provide evidence

3 (1) The order of the nominated court may require the person to attend a police station to provide the necessary identification evidence.

(2) Any such requirement—
 * (a) shall give the person at least seven days within which he must so attend, and
 * (b) may direct him to attend at a specified time of day or between specified times of day.

(3) If the person fails to attend in accordance with the order—
 * (a) the nominated court may issue a warrant for his arrest, and
 * (b) the person may be detained for such period as is necessary to enable the necessary identification evidence to be taken.The court shall inform the person concerned of the effect of this sub-paragraph.

(4) Sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) do not apply where the person concerned is in prison or is otherwise lawfully detained.In that case the necessary identification evidence may be taken at the place where he is detained or at such other place as the nominated court may direct.

Consent to taking of evidence

4 (1) The necessary identification evidence may be taken—
 * (a) with the appropriate consent given in writing, or
 * (b) without that consent, in accordance with paragraph 5.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “the appropriate consent” has the meaning given by section 65 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 or, in Northern Ireland, Article 53 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.

(3) The court shall inform the person concerned of the effect of this paragraph.

Taking of evidence without consent

5 (1) A constable may, if authorised by an officer of the rank of superintendent or above, take the necessary identification evidence without consent.

(2) An officer may give an authorisation under sub-paragraph (1) orally or in writing, but if he gives it orally he shall confirm it in writing as soon as is reasonably practicable.


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56 Schedule 4—Taking of fingerprints or non-intimate samples (3) Before fingerprints or a sample are taken from a person upon an authorisation given under sub-paragraph (1), he shall be informed that the authorisation has been given.

Record of certain matters to be made

6 (1) After fingerprints or a sample are taken under this Schedule, there shall be recorded as soon as is reasonably practicable any of the following which apply—
 * (a) the fact that the appropriate consent has been given,
 * (b) any authorisation given under paragraph 5(1), and
 * (c) the fact that the person has been informed under paragraph 5(3) of the giving of such authorisation.

(2) A copy of the record shall be sent to the Secretary of State for transmission to the ICC together with the material obtained under this Schedule.

Checking of fingerprints or samples

7 (1) This paragraph applies to—
 * (a) fingerprints or samples taken under this Schedule, and
 * (b) information derived from such samples.

(2) The fingerprints, samples or information may be used only for the purpose of an investigation into a relevant offence.

(3) In particular, a check may not be made against them under—
 * (a) section 63A(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60) (checking of fingerprints and samples), or
 * (b) Article 63A(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12)) (checking of fingerprints and samples),except for the purpose of an investigation into a relevant offence.

(4) The fingerprints, samples or information may be checked, subject to sub-paragraph (2), against—
 * (a) other fingerprints or samples taken under this Schedule or information derived from such samples,
 * (b) any of the fingerprints, samples and information mentioned in section 63A(1)(a) and (b) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (checking of fingerprints and samples), and
 * (c) any of the fingerprints, samples and information mentioned in Article 63A(1)(a) and (b) of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (checking of fingerprints and samples).

(5) For the purposes of this paragraph a “relevant offence” means an ICC crime or an offence under Part 5 of this Act.

(6) Before fingerprints or a sample are taken from a person under this Schedule, he shall be informed that they may be used as mentioned in this paragraph.

Destruction of fingerprints and samples

8 Section 64 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 or Article 64 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (destruction of fingerprints or samples) applies to fingerprints and samples taken under


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 felt at the moment that tie of country which unites all when they meet on a far distant shore. When the song ceased, Byron, with a melancholy smile, observed, "Why, positively, we are all quite sentimental this evening, and I-I, who have sworn against sentimentality, find the old leaven still in my nature, and quite ready to make a fool of me. Tell it not in Gath,' that is to say, breathe it not in London, or to English ears polite, or never again shall I be able to enact the stoic philosopher. Come, come, this will never do, we must forswear moonlight, fine views, and above all, hearing a national air sung. Little does his gracious Majesty Big Ben, as Moore calls him, imagine what loyal subjects he has at Genoa, and least of all that I am among their number."

Byron attempted to be gay, but the effort was not successful, and he wished us good-night with a trepidation of manner that marked his feelings. And this is the man that I have heard considered unfeeling! How often are our best qualities turned against us, and made the instruments for wounding us in the most vulnerable part, until, ashamed of betraying our susceptibility, we affect an insensibility we are far from possessing, and, while we deceive others, nourish in secret the feelings that prey only on our own hearts!

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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 4—Taking of fingerprints or non-intimate samples this Schedule in connection with the investigation of an ICC crime as it applies in relation to fingerprints and samples taken in connection with the investigation of an offence under the law of England and Wales or Northern Ireland. Rh

Application for order

1 (1) An order under this Part of this Schedule may be made by a Circuit judge or, in Northern Ireland, a county court judge on an application made in pursuance of a direction by the Secretary of State under section 37(1) (investigation of proceeds of ICC crime). (2) Any such application—
 * (a) in England and Wales, may be made without notice and may be granted without a hearing; and
 * (b) in Northern Ireland, may be made on an ex parte application to a judge in chambers.

Grounds for making order

2 (1) The judge may make an order under this Part of this Schedule if he is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting—
 * (a) that a specified person has benefited from an ICC crime, and
 * (b) that the material to which the application relates is likely to be of substantial value (whether by itself or together with other material) to the investigation for the purposes of which the application is made.

(2) No such order shall be made if it appears to the judge that the material to which the application relates consists of or include items subject to legal privilege.

(3) Paragraphs 3 and 4 specify the descriptions of order that may be made.

Production or access orders: standard orders

3 (1) The judge may order a specified person who appears to have in his possession, custody or power specified material, or material of a specified description, to which the application relates, either—
 * (a) to produce the material to a constable within a specified period for the constable to take away (a “production order”), or
 * (b) to give a constable access to the material within a specified period (an “access order”).

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58 Schedule 5—Investigation of proceeds of ICC crime Part 1—Production or access orders period would be appropriate in the particular circumstances of the application.

(3) Where the judge makes an access order in relation to material on any premises he may, on the application of a constable, order any person who appears to him to be entitled to grant entry to the premises to allow a constable to enter the premises to obtain access to the material.

(4) In this paragraph “specified” means specified in the order.

(5) Where a production or access order is made by virtue of paragraph 4 (special orders), the provisions of this paragraph have effect subject to the modifications specified in that paragraph.

Production or access orders: special orders

4 (1) A production or access order may be made in relation to a person who the judge thinks is likely to have material to which the application relates in his possession, custody or power within the period of 28 days beginning with the date of the order.

(2) A production or access order may also be made in relation to material consisting of or including material which is expected to come into existence within that period.In that case it must specify a person within sub-paragraph (1). (3) Where a production or access order is made by virtue of this paragraph—
 * (a) the order shall require the specified person to notify a named constable as soon as is reasonably practicable after any material to which the application relates comes into his possession, custody or power, and
 * (b) paragraph 3 has effect with the following modifications.

(4) The modifications are—
 * (a) that the references in paragraph 3(1) to material which the specified person has in his possession, custody or power shall be read as references to the material that comes into his possession, custody or power, and
 * (b) that the reference in paragraph 3(2) to the date of the order shall be read as a reference to the date of the notification required by sub-paragraph (3)(a) above.

(5) In this paragraph “specified” means specified in the order.

Effect of order: general

5 (1) An order under this Part of this Schedule has effect as if it were an order of the Crown Court.

(2) Provision may be made by Crown Court Rules as to—
 * (a) the discharge and variation of such orders, and
 * (b) proceedings relating to such orders.

Effect of order: supplementary

6 (1) The following provisions have effect with respect to the effect of an order under this Part of this Schedule.


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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 5—Investigation of proceeds of ICC crime Part 1—Production or access orders (2) Where the material to which the order relates consists of information contained in a computer—
 * (a) a production order has effect as an order to produce the material in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible, and
 * (b) an access order has effect as an order to give access to the material in a form in which it is visible and legible.

(3) An order under this Part of this Schedule does not confer any right to production of, or access to, items subject to legal privilege.

(4) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the order has effect notwithstanding any obligation as to secrecy or other restriction upon the disclosure of information imposed by statute or otherwise.

(5) For the purposes of sections 21 and 22 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60) or, in Northern Ireland, Articles 23 and 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12)) (access to, and copying and retention of, seized material) material produced in pursuance of an order under this Part of this Schedule shall be treated as if it were material seized by a constable.

Order in relation to material in possession of government department

7 (1) An order under this Part of this Schedule may be made in relation to material in the possession, custody or power of a government department.

(2) An order so made—
 * (a) shall be served as if the proceedings were civil proceedings against the department, and
 * (b) may require any officer of the department, whether named in the order or not, who may for the time being have in his possession, custody or power the material concerned, to comply with it.

(3) In this paragraph “government department” means an authorised government department for the purposes of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (c. 44) or an authorised Northern Ireland department for the purposes of that Act as it applies to the Crown in right of Her Majesty’s Government in Northern Ireland.

Application for warrant

8 A search warrant may be issued under this Part of this Schedule by a Circuit Judge or, in Northern Ireland, a county court judge on an application made in pursuance of a direction by the Secretary of State under section 37(1) (investigation of proceeds of ICC crime).

Effect of warrant

9 (1) A search warrant issued under this Part of this Schedule authorises any constable—
 * (a) to enter and search the premises specified in the warrant, and


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Runo XXII]

On our host at head of table,

On our hostess in her storehouse,

On their sons, the nets when casting,

On their daughters at their weaving.

May they have no cause for trouble,

Nor lament the year that follows,

After their protracted banquet,

This carousal at the mansion!“

the drinking-bout was ended,

And the feast at length was over,

At the festival at Pohja,

Bridal feast held at Pimentola,

Then said Pohjola’s old Mistress,

To the bridegroom, Ilmarinen,

“Wherefore sit’st thou, highly-born one,

Waitest thou, O pride of country?

Sit’st thou here to please the father,

Or for love of mother waitest,

Or our dwelling to illumine,

Or the wedding guests to honour?

“Not for father’s pleasure wait’st thou,

Nor for love thou bear’st the mother,

Nor the dwelling to illumine,

Nor the wedding guests to honour:

Here thou sit’st for maiden’s pleasure,

For a young girl’s love delaying,

For the fair one whom thou long’st for,

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60 Schedule 5—Investigation of proceeds of ICC crime Part 2—Search warrants :(b) to seize and retain any material found on the search that is likely to be of substantial value (whether by itself or together with other material) to the investigation for the purposes of which the warrant was issued.

(2) The warrant does not confer any right to seize material that consists of or includes items subject to legal privilege.

Grounds for issue of warrant

10 (1) The judge may issue a search warrant under this Part of this Schedule in the following cases.

(2) The first case is where the judge is satisfied that a production or access order made in relation to material on the premises has not been complied with.

(3) The second case is where the judge is satisfied—
 * (a) that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that a specified person has benefited from an ICC crime,
 * (b) that there are grounds for making a production or access order (see paragraph 2) in relation to material on the premises, and
 * (c) that it would not be appropriate to make a production or access order in relation to the material for any of the following reasons.

(4) Those reasons are—
 * (a) that it is not practicable to communicate with any person entitled to produce the material,
 * (b) that it is not practicable to communicate with any person entitled to grant access to the material or entitled to grant entry to the premises on which the material is situated, or
 * (c) that the investigation for the purposes of which the application is made might be seriously prejudiced unless a constable could secure immediate access to the material.

(5) The third case is where the judge is satisfied—
 * (a) that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that a specified person has benefited from an ICC crime,
 * (b) that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is material on the premises which cannot be particularised at the time of the application but which—
 * (i) relates to the specified person, or to the question whether that person has benefited from an ICC crime, or to any question as to the extent or whereabouts of the proceeds of an ICC crime, and
 * (ii) is likely to be of substantial value (whether by itself or together with other material) to the investigation for the purposes of which the application is made, and
 * (c) that any of the following circumstances apply.

(6) Those circumstances are—
 * (a) that it is not practicable to communicate with any person entitled to grant entry to the premises,
 * (b) that entry to the premises will not be granted unless a warrant is produced, or


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 serious or not. He has a habit of mystifying, that might impose upon many; but that can be detected by examining his physiognomy; for a sort of mock gravity, now and then broken by a malicious smile, betrays when he is speaking for effect, and not giving utterance to his real sentiments. If he sees that he is detected, he appears angry for a moment, and then laughingly admits that it amuses him to hoax people, as he calls it, and that when each person, at some future day, will give their different statements of him, they will be so contradictory, that all will be doubted - an idea that gratifies him exceedingly! The mobility of his nature is extraordinary, and makes him inconsistent in his actions as well as in his conversation. He introduced the subject of La Contessa Guiccioli and her family, which we of course, would not have touched on. He stated that they lived beneath his roof because his rank as a British peer afforded her father and brother protection, they having been banished from Ravenna, their native place, on account of their politics. He spoke in high terms of the Counts Gamba, father and son; he said that he had given the family a wing of his house, but that their establishments were totally separate, their repasts never taken together, and that such was their scrupulous delicacy, that they never would


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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 5—Investigation of proceeds of ICC crime Part 2—Search warrants :(c) that the investigation for the purposes of which the application is made might be seriously prejudiced unless a constable arriving at the premises could secure immediate entry to them.

11 In this Schedule—
 * “constable” includes a person commissioned by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise; and
 * “items subject to legal privilege” and “premises” have the same meaning as in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60) or, in Northern Ireland, the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12)).

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Application for freezing order

1 (1) A freezing order may be made by the High Court on an application in pursuance of a direction given by the Secretary of State under section 38.

(2) Any such application—
 * (a) in England and Wales, may be made without notice and may be granted without a hearing; and
 * (b) in Northern Ireland, may be made on an ex parte application to a judge in chambers.

Grounds for making order

2 The court may make a freezing order if it is satisfied—
 * (a) that a forfeiture order has been made in proceedings before the ICC, or
 * (b) that there are reasonable grounds for believing that a forfeiture order may be made in such proceedings,

and that the property to which the order relates consists of or includes property that is or may be affected by such a forfeiture order.

Effect of order

3 (1) A “freezing order” is an order prohibiting any person from dealing with property specified in the order otherwise than in accordance with such conditions and exceptions as may be specified in the order.

(2) A freezing order shall provide for notice to be given to persons affected by the order.


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62 Schedule 6—Freezing orders in respect of property liable to forfeiture Variation or discharge of order

4 (1) A freezing order may be varied or discharged in relation to any property on the application of any person affected by the order.

(2) A freezing order shall be discharged on the conclusion of the ICC proceedings in relation to which the order was made.

Power to appoint receiver

5 (1) The powers conferred by this paragraph may be exercised if a freezing order is in force.

(2) The High Court may at any time appoint a receiver—
 * (a) to take possession of any property specified in the order, and
 * (b) in accordance with the court’s directions, to manage or otherwise deal with the property in respect of which he is appointed,subject to such exceptions and conditions as may be specified by the court.

(3) The High Court may require any person having possession of property in respect of which a receiver is appointed under this paragraph to give possession of it to the receiver.

(4) The powers conferred on a receiver by this paragraph shall be exercised with a view to securing that the property specified in the order is available for satisfying the forfeiture order or, as the case may be, any forfeiture order that may be made in the ICC proceedings in relation to which the order was made.

(5) A receiver appointed under this paragraph shall not be liable to any person in respect of any loss or damage resulting from any action taken by him which he believed on reasonable grounds that he was entitled to take, except in so far as the loss or damage is caused by his negligence.

Seizure to prevent removal from jurisdiction

6 (1) Where a freezing order has been made, a constable may, for the purpose of preventing any property specified in the order from being removed from the jurisdiction, seize the property.

(2) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to property being removed from the jurisdiction is to its being removed from England and Wales or Northern Ireland, as the case may be.

(3) Property seized under this paragraph shall be dealt with in accordance with the directions of the High Court.

Registered land: England and Wales

7 (1) The Land Charges Act 1972 (c. 61) and the Land Registration Act 1925 (c. 21) apply—
 * (a) in relation to freezing orders, as they apply in relation to orders affecting land made by the court for the purpose of enforcing judgments or recognisances; and
 * (b) in relation to applications for freezing orders, as they apply in relation to other pending land actions.

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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 6—Freezing orders in respect of property liable to forfeiture registered land to which a freezing order or an application for a freezing order relates.

Registered land: Northern Ireland

8 (1) The ICC shall be treated for the purposes of section 66 of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 (c. 18 (N.I.)) (cautions) as a person interested in relation to any registered land to which a freezing order or an application for such an order relates.

(2) Upon being served with a copy of a freezing order or an application for such an order, the Registrar shall, in respect of any registered land to which the order or application relates, make an entry inhibiting any dealing with the land without the consent of the High Court.

(3) Subsections (2) and (4) of section 67 of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 (inhibitions) apply to an entry made under sub-paragraph (2) as they apply to an entry made on the application of any person interested in the registered land under subsection (1) of that section.

(4) Where a freezing order has been protected by an entry registered under the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 or the Registration of Deeds Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 (c. 25 (N.I.)), an order under paragraph 4 discharging the freezing order may direct that the entry be vacated.

(5) In this paragraph—
 * (a) “Registrar” and “entry” have the same meanings as in the Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970; and
 * (b) “registered land” has the meaning assigned to it by section 45(1)(a) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33 (N.I.)).

Bankruptcy: England and Wales

9 (1) Where a person is adjudged bankrupt in England and Wales—
 * (a) property for the time being subject to a freezing order, or an order having the like effect in Scotland, made before the order adjudging him bankrupt, and
 * (b) any proceeds of property realised by virtue of paragraph 5(2) for the time being in the hands of a receiver appointed under that paragraph,

is excluded from the bankrupt’s estate for the purposes of Part 9 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45).

(2) Where a person has been adjudged bankrupt in England and Wales, the powers conferred on a receiver appointed under paragraph 5 above shall not be exercised in relation to—
 * (a) property for the time being comprised in the bankrupt’s estate for the purposes of that Part of that Act;
 * (b) property in respect of which his trustee in bankruptcy may (without leave of court) serve a notice under section 307, 308 or 308A of that Act (after-acquired property and tools, clothes, etc. exceeding value of reasonable replacement and certain tenancies); and
 * (c) property which is to be applied for the benefit of creditors of the bankrupt by virtue of a condition imposed under section 280(2)(c) of that Act.


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64 Schedule 6—Freezing orders in respect of property liable to forfeiture (3) Nothing in that Act shall be taken as restricting, or enabling the restriction of, the exercise of those powers.

(4) Where, in the case of a debtor, an interim receiver stands appointed under section 286 of that Act and any property of the debtor is subject to a freezing order, the powers conferred on the receiver by virtue of that Act do not apply to property for the time being subject to the freezing order.

(5) In any case in which a petition in bankruptcy was presented, or a receiving order or adjudication in bankruptcy was made, before 29th December 1986 (the date on which the Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45) came into force), this paragraph shall have effect with the following modifications—
 * (a) for references to the bankrupt’s estate for the purposes of Part 9 of that Act there shall be substituted references to the property of the bankrupt for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 (c. 59);
 * (b) for references to the Act of 1986 and sections 280(2)(c) and 286 of that Act there shall be respectively substituted references to the Act of 1914 and to sections 26(2) and 8 of that Act;
 * (c) the references in sub-paragraph (4) to an interim receiver appointed as there mentioned include, where a receiving order has been made, a reference to the receiver constituted by virtue of section 7 of the Act of 1914; and
 * (d) sub-paragraph (2)(b) shall be omitted.

Bankruptcy: Northern Ireland

10 (1) Where a person is adjudged bankrupt in Northern Ireland—
 * (a) property for the time being subject to a freezing order, or an order having the like effect in Scotland, made before the order adjudging him bankrupt, and
 * (b) any proceeds of property realised by virtue of paragraph 5(2) for the time being in the hands of a receiver appointed under that paragraph,

is excluded from the bankrupt’s estate for the purposes of Part IX of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)).

(2) Where a person has been adjudged bankrupt in Northern Ireland, the powers conferred on a receiver appointed under paragraph 5 above shall not be exercised in relation to—
 * (a) property for the time being comprised in the bankrupt’s estate for the purposes of that Part of that Order;
 * (b) property in respect of which his trustee in bankruptcy may (without leave of court) serve a notice under Article 280 or 281 of that Order (after-acquired property and tools, clothes, etc. exceeding value of reasonable replacement); and
 * (c) property which is to be applied for the benefit of creditors of the bankrupt by virtue of a condition imposed under Article 254(2)(c) of that Order.

(3) Nothing in that Order shall be taken as restricting, or enabling the restriction of, the exercise of those powers.

(4) Where, in the case of a debtor, an interim receiver stands appointed under Article 259 of that Order and any property of the debtor is subject to a freezing order, the powers conferred on the receiver by virtue of that Order do not apply to property for the time being subject to the freezing order.


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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 6—Freezing orders in respect of property liable to forfeiture (5) In any case in which a petition in bankruptcy was presented, or a receiving order or adjudication in bankruptcy was made, before 1st October 1991 (the date on which the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)) came into force), this paragraph shall have effect with the following modifications—
 * (a) for references to the bankrupt’s estate for the purposes of Part IX of that Order there shall be substituted references to the property of the bankrupt for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Acts (Northern Ireland) 1857 to 1980;
 * (b) sub-paragraph (2)(b) shall be omitted;
 * (c) for the reference in sub-paragraph (2)(c) to Article 254(2)(c) of that Order there shall be substituted a reference to Articles 28(4), (5)(c) and (11) and 30(6)(c) of the Bankruptcy Amendment (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/561 (N.I. 4));
 * (d) for the reference in sub-paragraph (3) to that Order there shall be substituted a reference to the Bankruptcy Acts (Northern Ireland) 1857 to 1980; and
 * (e) for the reference in sub-paragraph (4) to an interim receiver appointed under Article 259 of that Order there shall be substituted a reference to a receiver or manager appointed under section 68 of the Bankruptcy (Ireland) Amendment Act 1872 (c. 58).

Winding up: England and Wales

11 (1) Where an order for the winding up of a company has been made under the Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45), or a resolution has been passed by a company for voluntary winding up under that Act, the functions of the liquidator (or any provisional liquidator) shall not be exercisable in relation to—
 * (a) property for the time being subject to a freezing order, or an order having the like effect in Scotland, made before the relevant time, and
 * (b) any proceeds of property realised by virtue of paragraph 5(2) for the time being in the hands of a receiver appointed under that paragraph.

(2)Where such an order has been made or such a resolution has been passed, the powers conferred on a receiver appointed under paragraph 5 shall not be exercised in relation to any property held by the company in relation to which the functions of the liquidator are exercisable—
 * (a) so as to inhibit him from exercising those functions for the purpose of distributing any property held by the company to the company’s creditors; or
 * (b) so as to prevent the payment out of any property of expenses (including the remuneration of the liquidator or any provisional liquidator) properly incurred in the winding up in respect of the property.

(3) Nothing in the Insolvency Act 1986 shall be taken as restricting, or enabling the restriction of, the exercise of those powers.

(4) In this paragraph—
 * “company” means any company which may be wound up under the Insolvency Act 1986; and
 * “the relevant time” means—


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 accept a pecuniary obligation from him in all the difficulties entailed on them by their exile. He represented La Contessa Guiccioli as a most amiable and lady-like person, perfectly disinterested and noble-minded, devotedly attached to him, and possessing so many high and estimable qualities, as to offer an excuse for any man's attachment to her. He said that he had been passionately in love with her, and that she had sacrificed every thing for him; that the whole of her conduct towards him had been admirable, and that not only did he feel the strongest personal attachment to her, but the highest sentiments of esteem. He dwelt with evident complacency on her noble birth and distinguished connections - advantages to which he attaches great importance. I never met any one with so decided a taste for aristocracy as Lord Byron, and this is shown in a thousand different ways.

He says the Contessa is well educated, remarkably fond of, and well read in, the poetry of her own country, and a tolerable proficient in that of France and England. In his praises of Madame Guiccioli, it is quite evident that he is sincere, and I am persuaded this is his last attachment. He told me that she had used every effort to get him to discontinue "Don Juan," or at least to preserve the future cantos from all impure pass-


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 ages. In short, he has said all that was possible to impress me with a favorable opinion of this lady, and has convinced me that he entertains a very high one of her himself.

Byron is a strange mélange of good and evil, the predominancy of either depending wholly on the humor he may happen to be in. His is a character that Nature totally unfitted for domestic habits, or for rendering a woman of refinement or susceptibility happy. He confesses to me that he is not happy, but admits that it is his own fault, as the Contessa Guiccioli, the only object of his love, has all the qualities to render a reasonable being happy. I observed, apropos to some observation he had made, that I feared La Contessa Guiccioli had little reason to be satisfied with her lot. He answered, "Perhaps you are right; yet she must know that I am sincerely attached to her; but the truth is, my habits are not those requisite to form the happiness of any woman; I am worn out in feelings; for, though only thirty-six, I feel sixty in mind, and am less capable than ever of those nameless attentions that all women, but, above all, Italian women, require. I like solitude, which has become absolutely necessary to me; am fond of shutting myself up for hours, and, when with the person I like, am often distrait and gloomy. There is


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66 Schedule 6—Freezing orders in respect of property liable to forfeiture ::(a) where no order for the winding up of the company has been made, the time of the passing of the resolution for voluntary winding up;
 * (b) where such an order has been made and, before the presentation of the petition for the winding up of the company by the court, such a resolution had been passed by the company, the time of the passing of the resolution; and
 * (c) in any other case where such an order has been made, the time of the making of the order.

(5) In any case in which a winding up of a company commenced or is treated as having commenced before 29th December 1986 (the date on which the Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45) came into operation), this paragraph shall have effect with the substitution for references to that Act of references to the Companies Act 1985 (c. 6).

Winding up: Northern Ireland

12 (1) Where an order for the winding up of a company has been made under the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)), or a resolution has been passed by a company for voluntary winding up under that Order, the functions of the liquidator (or any provisional liquidator) shall not be exercisable in relation to—
 * (a) property for the time being subject to a freezing order, or an order having the like effect in Scotland, made before the relevant time, and
 * (b) any proceeds of property realised by virtue of paragraph 5(2) for the time being in the hands of a receiver appointed under that paragraph.

(2) Where such an order has been made or such a resolution has been passed, the powers conferred on a receiver appointed under paragraph 5 shall not be exercised in relation to any property held by the company in relation to which the functions of the liquidator are exercisable—
 * (a) so as to inhibit him from exercising those functions for the purpose of distributing any property held by the company to the company’s creditors; or
 * (b) so as to prevent the payment out of any property of expenses (including the remuneration of the liquidator or any provisional liquidator) properly incurred in the winding up in respect of the property.

(3) Nothing in the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 shall be taken as restricting, or enabling the restriction of, the exercise of those powers.

(4) In this paragraph—
 * “company” means any company which may be wound up under the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)); and
 * “the relevant time” means—
 * (a) where no order for the winding up of the company has been made, the time of the passing of the resolution for voluntary winding up;
 * (b) where such an order has been made and, before the presentation of the petition for the winding up of the company by the court, such a resolution had been passed by the company, the time of the passing of the resolution; and


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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 6—Freezing orders in respect of property liable to forfeiture ::(c) in any other case where such an order has been made, the time of the making of the order.

(5) In any case in which a winding up of a company commenced or is treated as having commenced before 1st October 1991 (the date on which the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)) came into operation), this paragraph shall have effect with the substitution for references to that Order of references to the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6)).

Protection of insolvency practitioners

13 (1) This paragraph applies where an insolvency practitioner seizes or disposes of property which is subject to a freezing order and—
 * (a) he reasonably believes that he is entitled to do so in the exercise of his functions, and
 * (b) he would be so entitled if the property were not subject to a freezing order.

(2) The insolvency practitioner shall not be liable to any person in respect of any loss or damage resulting from the seizure or disposal except in so far as the loss or damage is caused by his negligence.

(3) The insolvency practitioner shall have a lien on the property seized or the proceeds of its sale—
 * (a) for such of his expenses as were incurred in connection with the insolvency proceedings in relation to which the seizure or disposal purported to take place, and
 * (b) for so much of his remuneration as may be reasonably assigned for his acting in connection with those proceedings.

(4) Sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) are without prejudice to the generality of any provision contained in the Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45) or the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.

(5) In this paragraph “insolvency practitioner”, in any part of the United Kingdom, means a person acting as an insolvency practitioner in that or any other part of the United Kingdom.

(6) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (5) any question whether a person is acting as an insolvency practitioner in England and Wales or in Scotland shall be determined in accordance with section 388 of the Insolvency Act 1986, except that—
 * (a) the reference in section 388(2)(a) to a permanent or interim trustee in the sequestration of a debtor’s estate shall be taken to include a reference to a trustee in sequestration,
 * (b) section 388(5) shall be disregarded, and
 * (c) the expression shall also include the Official Receiver acting as receiver or manager of property.

(7) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (5) any question whether a person is acting as an insolvency practitioner in Northern Ireland shall be determined in accordance with Article 3 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, except that—
 * (a) Article 3(5) shall be disregarded, and
 * (b) the expression shall also include the Official Receiver acting as receiver or manager of property.


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68 Schedule 6—Freezing orders in respect of property liable to forfeiture Interpretation

14 (1) For the purposes of this Schedule—
 * (a) “property” includes money and all other property, real or personal, heritable or moveable, and including things in action and other intangible or incorporeal property; and
 * (b) “dealing with property” includes (without prejudice to the generality of that expression)—
 * (i) where a debt is owed to a person, making a payment to any person in reduction of the amount of the debt, and
 * (ii) removing the property from England and Wales or Northern Ireland.

(2) For the purposes of this Schedule ICC proceedings are concluded—
 * (a) when there is no further possibility of a forfeiture order being made in the proceedings; or
 * (b) on the satisfaction of a forfeiture order made in the proceedings (whether by the recovery of all the property liable to be recovered, or otherwise).

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Introduction

1 The provisions specified in this Schedule do not apply in relation to a person detained in England and Wales or Northern Ireland in pursuance of a sentence of the ICC.

Provisions affecting length of sentence

2 (1) The following provisions of the law of England and Wales do not apply—
 * (a) section 24 of the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52) (calculation of term of sentence: meaning of “month”);
 * (b) section 49(2) of that Act (deduction of periods unlawfully at large);
 * (c) section 23(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1961 (c. 39) (discharge at weekend or on a holiday);
 * (d) section 67 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80) or section 87 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (c. 6) (crediting of periods of remand in custody).

(2) The following provisions of the law of Northern Ireland do not apply—
 * any provision of rules under section 13 of the Prisons (Northern Ireland) Act 1953 (c. 18 (N.I.)) (prison rules) as to—
 * (a) remission, or
 * (b) discharge at a weekend or on a holiday;
 * section 38(2) of that Act (deduction of periods unlawfully at large);
 * section 26(2) of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (c. 29 (N.I.)) (taking into account of time spent in custody).


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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 7—Domestic provisions not applicable to ICC prisoners Provisions relating to early release or release on licence

3 (1) The following provisions of the law of England and Wales do not apply—
 * section 28 of the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52) (power to discharge prisoners temporarily on grounds of ill health);
 * any provision of rules under section 47 of that Act (prison rules) permitting temporary release on licence;
 * section 32 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48) or Part 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (early release of prisoners);
 * Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c. 43) (release on licence of life prisoners).

(2) The following provisions of the law of Northern Ireland do not apply—
 * any provision of rules under section 13 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (c. 18 (N.I.)) (prison rules) permitting temporary release on licence;
 * section 23 of that Act (release on licence of life prisoners);
 * section 24 of that Act (power to discharge prisoners temporarily on grounds of ill health).

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Article 6 Genocide For the purpose of this Statute, “genocide” means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
 * (a) Killing members of the group;
 * (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
 * (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
 * (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
 * (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 7 Crimes against humanity 1 For the purpose of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
 * (a) Murder;
 * (b) Extermination;
 * (c) Enslavement;
 * (d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;


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70 Schedule 8—Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: articles 6 to 9 :(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
 * (f) Torture;
 * (g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
 * (h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
 * (i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
 * (j) The crime of apartheid;
 * (k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

2 For the purpose of paragraph 1:
 * (a) “Attack directed against any civilian population” means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;
 * (b) “Extermination” includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population;
 * (c) “Enslavement” means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;
 * (d) “Deportation or forcible transfer of population” means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law;
 * (e) “Torture” means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;
 * (f) “Forced pregnancy” means the unlawful confinement of a woman forcibly made pregnant, with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of any population or carrying out other grave violations of international law .;
 * (g) “Persecution” means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of the identity of the group or collectivity;
 * (h) “The crime of apartheid” means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime;
 * (i) “Enforced disappearance of persons” means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give


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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 8—Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: articles 6 to 9 : information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time.

3 For the purpose of this Statute, it is understood that the term “gender” refers to the two sexes, male and female, within the context of society. The term “gender” does not indicate any meaning different from the above. Article 8 War crimes 2 For the purpose of this Statute, “war crimes” means:
 * (a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
 * (i) Wilful killing;
 * (ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
 * (iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;
 * (iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
 * (v) Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;
 * (vi) Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial;
 * (vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
 * (viii) Taking of hostages.
 * (b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
 * (i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
 * (ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;
 * (iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;
 * (iv) Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
 * (v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;


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72 Schedule 8—Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: articles 6 to 9 ::(vi) Killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion;
 * (vii) Making improper use of a flag of truce, or of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury;
 * (viii) The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory;
 * (ix) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
 * (x) Subjecting persons who are in the power of an adverse party to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;
 * (xi) Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;
 * (xii) Declaring that no quarter will be given;
 * (xiii) Destroying or seizing the enemy’s property unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war;
 * (xiv) Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party;
 * (xv) Compelling the nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations of war directed against their own country, even if they were in the belligerent’s service before the commencement of the war;
 * (xvi) Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
 * (xvii) Employing poison or poisoned weapons;
 * (xviii) Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;
 * (xix) Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions;
 * (xxi) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
 * (xxii) Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy as defined in article 7, paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilisation, or any other form of sexual violence also constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions;
 * (xxiii) Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations;
 * (xxiii) Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations;


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International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) Schedule 8—Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: articles 6 to 9 ::(xxiv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law;
 * (xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;
 * (xxvi) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities.
 * (c) In the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause:
 * (i) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
 * (ii) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
 * (iii) Taking of hostages;
 * (iv) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all judicial guarantees which are generally recognised as indispensable.
 * (d) Paragraph 2(c) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature.
 * (e) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
 * (i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
 * (ii) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law;
 * (iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;
 * (iv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
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 his picture, for instance, as a matter of course for her locket; his favorite, rather odd, colors for her clothes; his sturdy, adventuresome, fleet-footed opinions to run ahead and break in all her strange new thought-grounds for her. More than this, in every possible way that showed to the world he stamped her definitely as the most carefully cher ished wife among all her young married mates.

At first the very novelty of the situation had fed his eyes with rapture and fired the girl's face with a feverish excitement almost as pink as happiness. The surprise and congratulations of their friends, the speech of the janitor, the floral offering of the elevator boy, the long procession of silver spoons and cut-glass dishes, had filled their days with in terest and laughter. Trig in her light muslin house gowns or her big gingham aprons, Ruth fluttered blissfully around her house like a new, brainy sort of butterfly. By some fine, instinctive delicacy, shrewder than many women's love, she divined and forestalled Drew's domestic tastes and preferences, and lined his simplest, homespun needs with all the quiver and sheen of silk. Resting his weariness, spurring his laziness; equally quick to divine the need of a sofa pillow or a joke; equally interested in his food and his politics; always ready to talk, always ready to keep still; cramping her free sub- urban ways into his hampered accommodations;

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74 Schedule 8—Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: articles 6 to 9 ::(vi) Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilization, and any other form of sexual violence also constituting a serious violation of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions;
 * (vii) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities;
 * (viii) Ordering the displacement of the civilian population for reasons related to the conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand;
 * (ix) Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary;
 * (x) Declaring that no quarter will be given;
 * (xi) Subjecting persons who are in the power of another party to the conflict to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;
 * (xii) Destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict.
 * (f) Paragraph 2(e) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature. It applies to armed conflicts that take place in the territory of a State when there is protracted armed conflict between governmental authorities and organized armed groups or between such groups.

Article 9 Elements of crimes 1 Elements of Crimes shall assist the Court in the interpretation and application of articles 6, 7 and 8. They shall be adopted by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Assembly of States Parties.

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 * (a) Any State Party;
 * (b) The judges acting by an absolute majority;
 * (c) The Prosecutor.Such amendments shall be adopted by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Assembly of States Parties.

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Article 70 Offences against the administration of justice 1 The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
 * (a) Giving false testimony when under an obligation pursuant to article 69, paragraph 1 to tell the truth;
 * (b) Presenting evidence that the party knows is false or forged;
 * (c) Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence;
 * (d) Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court for the purpose of forcing or persuading the official not to perform, or to perform improperly, his or her duties;
 * (e) Retaliating against an official of the Court on account of duties performed by that or another official;
 * (f) Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court in connection with his or her official duties.…

4 (a) Each State Party shall extend its criminal laws penalizing offences against the integrity of its own investigative or judicial process to offences against the administration of justice referred to in this article, committed on its territory, or by one of its nationals;

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 missing her garden and her pets and her piazzas without ever acknowledging it she tried in every plausible way except loving to compensate Drew for the wrong she had done him.

Only once did Drew's smoldering self-control slip the short leash he had set for himself. Just once, round the glowing coziness of a rainy-night open fire, he had dropped his book slammingly on the floor and reached out his hand to her soft hair that brightened like bronze in the lamplight. "Are you happy?" he had probed before he could fairly bite the words back; and she had jumped up, and tossed her hair out of her eyes, and laughed as she started for the kitchen. "No, I'm not exactly happy" she had said. "But I'm awfully interested."

So June budded into July, and July bloomed into August, and August wilted into September, and September brittled and crisped and flamed at last into October. Tennis and boating and picnics and horseback riding filled up the edges of the days. Little by little the bright, wholesome red came back to live in Ruth's rounding cheeks. Little by little the good steady gleam of normal interests sup planted the wild will-o-the-wisp lights in her eyes. Little by little her accumulating possessions began to steel shyly out from her tiny room and make themselves boldly at home in the places where hith- erto they had ventured only as guests. Her work-

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 basket crowded Drew's tobacco-jar deliberately from the table to the top of the bookcase. Her daring hands nonchalantly replaced a brutally clever cartoon with a soft-toned sketch of a little child. Once, indeed, an ostentatiously freshly laundered dress, all lace and posies and ruffles, went and hung itself brazenly in Drew's roomy closet right next to his fishing clothes.

And then, just as Drew thought that at last he saw Happiness stop and turn and look at him a bit whimsically, Aleck Reese came back to town Aleck Reese, not as Fate should have had him, drunken with flattery, riotous with revelry, chasing madly some new infatuation, but Aleck Reese sobered, dazed, temporarily purified by the shock of his loss, if not by the loss itself.

For a week, blissfully unconscious of any cause, Drew had watched with growing perplexity and anxiety the sudden, abrupt flag in the girl's health and spirits and general friendliness. Flowers, fruit, candy, books, excursion plans had all succes sively, one by one, failed to rouse either her interest or her ordinary civility. And then one night, drag ging home extra late from a worried, wearisome day at the office, faint for his dinner, sick for his sleep, he found the apartment perfectly dark and cheerless, the fire unlighted, the table unset, and Ruth herself, lying in a paroxysm of grief on the

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 floor under his stumbling feet. With his dizzy head reeling blindly, and his hands shaking like an aspen, he picked her up and tried to carry her to the couch; but she wrenched herself away from him, and walked over to the window and halfway back again before she spoke.

"Aleck Reese has come home," she announced dully, and reached up unthinkingly and turned a blast of electric light full on her ghastly face.

Drew clutched at the back of the nearest chair. "Have you seen him?" he almost whispered.

The girl nodded. "Yes. He's been here a week. I've seen him twice. Once all day at the tennis club and this afternoon I met him on the street, and he came home with me to get a book."

"Why did n't you tell me before that he was here?"

She shrugged her shoulders wearily. "I thought his coming was n't going to matter," she faltered,

"But what?" said Drew.

Her arms fell limply down to her sides and her chin began to quiver.

"He kissed me this afternoon," she stammered. "and I kissed him. And, worse than that, we were both glad."

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 gave a queer little cry and fled, not away from him, but right into his arms, as though there was her only haven. "Would you be apt to hurt me?" she gasped with a funny-sad sort of inquisitiveness. Then she backed away and held out her hand like a man's to Drew s shaking fingers. " I'm very much ashamed," she said, "about this afternoon. Oh, very, very, very much ashamed. I have n't ever been a really good wife to you, you know, but I never have cheated before until to-day. I promise you faithfully that it sha n't happen again. But, Drew "- her face flushed utterly crimson " but, Drew I honestly think that it had to happen to day."

Drew's tortured eyes watched her keenly for a second and then his look softened. "Will you please tell Aleck," he suggested, "that you told me all about it and that I laughed?"

It was not till some time in December, however, after a nervous, evasive, speechless sort of week, that Ruth appeared abruptly one day at Drew's of fice, looking for all the world like the frightened child who had sought him out there the June be fore.

"Drew, you re five years older than I am, are n't you?" she began disconnectedly. "And you ve always been older than I am, and stronger than I am, and wiser than I am. And you ve always

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 until she had reached the street floor. Then, drop ping down weak-kneed upon the last step, she sat staring out into the dingy patch of snow that flared now and then through the swinging doorway. Somewhere out in that vista Aleck Reese was wait ing and watching for her. Two or three of her hus band's business acquaintances paused and accosted her. "Anything the matter?" they probed.

"Oh, no," she answered brightly. "I'm just thinking."

After a while she jumped up abruptly and stole back through a box-cluttered hall to the rear door of the building, and slid out unnoticed into a side street, gathering her great fur coat Drew's latest gift closer and closer around her shivering body. The day was gray and bleak and scarily incomplete, like the work of some amateur creator who had slipped up on the one essential secret of how to make the sun shine. The jingliest sound of sleigh- bells, the reddest flare of holiday shop windows, could not cheer her thoughts away from the sting ing, shuddering memory of Drew's crumpled shoul ders, the gasping catch of his breath, the strange new flicker of gray at his temples. Over and over to herself she kept repeating dully : "I've hurt Drew just the way that Aleck hurt me. It must n't be. It must n't be it must n't! There's got to be some way out!"

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Thou hast nothing in thy head but thy love. Thou shouldst not forget all others for one.

Goethe.

Is it possible that on so little acquaintance you should like her? that, but seeing, you should love her? and loving, woo? and wooing, she should grant?

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Love no man in good earnest, nor no further in sport neither, than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst in honor come off again.

You are now sailed into the north of my lady’s opinion; where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman’s beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt.

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 "Well, I won't do any more work to-night; I'll get up early to-morrow morning;" and I am thoroughly resolved to do so—then. In the morning, however, I feel less enthusiastic about the idea, and reflect that it would have been much better if I had stopped up last night. And then there is the trouble of dressing, and the more one thinks about that, the more one wants to put it off.

It is a strange thing this bed, this mimic grave, where we stretch our tired limbs, and sink away so quietly into the silence and rest. Oh bed, oh bed, delicious bed, that heaven on earth to the weary head," as sang poor Hood, you are a kind old nurse to us fretful boys and girls. Clever and foolish, naughty and good, you take us all in your motherly lap, and hush our wayward crying. The strong man full of care—the sick man full of pain—the little maiden, sobbing for her faithless lover—like children, we lay our aching heads on your white bosom, and you gently soothe us off to by-by.

Our trouble is sore indeed, when you turn away, and will not comfort us. How long the dawn seems coming, when we cannot sleep! Oh! those hideous nights, when we toss and turn in fever and pain, when we lie, like living men among the dead, staring out into the dark hours that drift so slowly between us and the light. And oh! those still more hideous nights, when we sit by another in pain, when the low


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 fire startles us every now and then with a falling cinder, and the tick of the clock seems a hammer, beating out the life that we are watching.

But enough of beds and bed-rooms. I have kept to them too long, even for an idle fellow. Let us come out, and have a smoke. That wastes time just as well, and does not look so bad. Tobacco has been a blessing to us idlers. What the civil service clerks before Sir Walter's time found to occupy their minds with, it is hard to imagine. I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. They had no work to do, and could not smoke, and the consequence was they were for ever fighting and rowing. If, by any extraordinary chance, there was no war going, then they got up a deadly family feud with the next-door neighbour, and if, in spite of this, they still had a few spare moments on their hands, they occupied them with discussions as to whose sweetheart was the best looking, the arguments employed on both sides being battle-axes, clubs, &c. Questions of taste were soon decided in those days. When a twelfth century youth fell in love, he did not take three paces backwards, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she was too beautiful to live. He said he would step outside and see about it. And if, when he got out, he met a man and broke his head—the other man's head, I mean—then that proved that his—the first fellow's girl—was a pretty


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 girl. But if the other fellow broke his head—not his own, you know, but the other fellow's—the other fellow to the second fellow, that is, because of course the other fellow would only be the other fellow to him, not the first fellow, who—well, if he broke his head, then his girl—not the other fellow's but the fellow who was the—Look here, if A broke B's head, then A's girl was a pretty girl; but if B broke A's head, then A's girl wasn't a pretty girl, but B's girl was. That was their method of conducting art criticism.

Now-a-days we light a pipe, and let the girls fight it out amongst themselves.

They do it very well. They are getting to do all our work. They are doctors, and barristers, and artists. They manage theatres, and promote swindles, and edit newspapers. I am looking forward to the time when we men shall have nothing to do but lie in bed till twelve, read two novels a day, have nice little five o'clock teas all to ourselves, and tax our brains with nothing more trying than discussions upon the latest patterns in trousers, and arguments as to what Mr Jones's coat was made of and whether it fitted him. It is a glorious prospect—for idle fellows.


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 the sound of a lost soul. It rose and fell and died away.

"Blowing stones," explained the Doctor, stopping to refill his pipe. "One finds them in these parts. Hollowed out during the glacial period. Always just about twilight that one hears it. Rush of air caused by sudden sinking of the temperature. That's how all these sort of ideas get started."

The Doctor, having lit his pipe, resumed his stride.

"I don't say," continued the Doctor, "that it would have happened without her coming. Undoubtedly it was she who supplied the necessary psychic conditions. There was that about her—a sort of atmosphere. That quaint archaic French of hers—King Arthur and the round table and Merlin; it seemed to recreate it all. An artful minx, that is the only explanation. But while she was looking at you, out of that curious aloofness of hers"

The Doctor left the sentence uncompleted.

"As for old Littlecherry," the Doctor began again quite suddenly, "that's his speciality—folklore, occultism, all that flummery. If you knocked at his door with the


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. If you are not congenial, it will not be through lack of opportunity to become acquainted.

. All that you can know, my dear, is little enough when it comes to a man. One does hear such stories. Only to-day, General Borrego's widow was telling me about a young girl, the daughter of some intimate friends, who came back to her parents after she had been married two months, because her husband, a young man of excellent family—they mentioned no names, but I can find out from Galán, he has inside information—well, her husband just spoiled her. And you must have heard, too, about the Molineros, who have been carrying on in the newspapers, and had their pictures published in a triangle, with the corespondentcorrespondent [sic] included, all taken together in the same group?

. We scarcely have time to keep up with the society news nowadays.

. Here come Paquita and Manolo.

. Good evening.

. Good evening, aunt. How do you do, Luisita? Adelaida… Where are Cristóbal and Galán?

. They will be here directly. Hello, Paquita. How are you?

. Quite wretched, thank you; I am fading away. Apparently my husband is resigned to my death.

. Don't say that, my dear. They might believe you.

. It is true, just the same. You know the doctors agree that I will die if I live in Madrid long enough; they advised you to take me to the suburbs, or to hurry and find a suitable place in the country before it was too late.

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 original Sleeping Beauty on your arm he'd only fuss round her with cushions and hope that she'd had a good night. Found a seed once—chipped it out of an old fossil, and grew it in a pot in his study. About the most dilapidated weed you ever saw. Talked about it as if he had re-discovered the Elixir of Life. Even if he didn't say anything in actually so many words, there was the way he went about. That of itself was enough to have started the whole thing, to say nothing of that loony old Irish housekeeper of his, with her head stuffed full of elves and banshees and the Lord knows what."

Again the Doctor lapsed into silence. One by one the lights of the village peeped upward out of the depths. A long, low line of light, creeping like some luminous dragon across the horizon, showed the track of the Great Western express moving stealthily towards Swindon.

"It was altogether out of the common," continued the Doctor, "quite out of the common, the whole thing. But if you are going to accept old Littlecherry's explanation of it"

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 grey stone, half hidden in the grass, and only just saved himself from falling.

"Remains of some old cromlech," explained the Doctor. "Somewhere about here, if we were to dig down, we should find a withered bundle of bones crouching over the dust of a prehistoric luncheon-basket. Interesting neighbourhood!"

The descent was rough. The Doctor did not talk again until we had reached the outskirts of the village.

"I wonder what's become of them?" mused the Doctor. "A rum go, the whole thing. I should like to have got to the bottom of it."

We had reached the Doctor's gate. The Doctor pushed it open and passed in. He seemed to have forgotten me.

"A taking little minx," I heard him muttering to himself as he fumbled with the door. "And no doubt meant well. But as for that cock-and-bull story"

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. Because you picked the craziest house in the most impossible town that was ever conceived by a man.

. I leave it to you if a villa on the Côte d'azur can be hired for twenty-five duros a season? I told you to get anything that would suit, and then go there and stay with the children. I can't ask for another vacation; I wouldn't if I could, to spend it with you and the boys. I need a vacation myself.

. You do? And where would you send me with those five little devils? Talk about murder! We couldn't come down before because of the row they raised when we started to put them to bed. They haven't the slightest respect for their father.

. Little pitchers have big ears.

. We have a new maid.

. Yes, the one who came yesterday.

. No, she came to-day; the one yesterday left last night. She seemed to feel strange with the children. She took a prejudice against them because they yelled she was homely.

. Are the poor dears all well and strong now?

. When did you ever hear of their all being well together? Five of them? The two oldest have indigestion. They never miss a day.

. Why do you let them eat so much?

. How can I help it? Their father has no authority; it isn't my place to wring their necks. Let them die a natural death. The baby is cutting his teeth. Now we have music all night.

. Evidently. Manolo is falling asleep.

. He isn't the only one who is losing sleep.—Don't make yourself conspicuous.

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commenced, so I calculate, about the year 2000, or, to be more precise—for figures are not the strong point of the old chroniclers—when King Heremon ruled over Ireland and Harbundia was Queen of the White Ladies of Brittany, the fairy Malvina being her favourite attendant. It is with Malvina that this story is chiefly concerned. Various quite pleasant happenings are recorded to her credit. The White Ladies belonged to the "good people," and, on the whole, lived up to their reputation. But in Malvina, side by side with much that is commendable, there appears to have existed a most reprehensible spirit of mischief, displaying itself in pranks that, excusable, or at all events understandable, in, say, a pixy or a pigwidgeon, strike one as altogether unworthy of a well-principled White Lady, posing as the friend and benefactress of mankind. For merely refusing to dance with her—at


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 midnight, by the shores of a mountain lake; neither the time nor the place calculated to appeal to an elderly gentleman, suffering possibly from rheumatism—she on one occasion transformed an eminently respectable proprietor of tin mines into a nightingale, necessitating a change of habits that to a business man must have been singularly irritating. On another occasion a quite important queen, having had the misfortune to quarrel with Malvina over some absurd point of etiquette in connection with a lizard, seems, on waking the next morning, to have found herself changed into what one judges, from the somewhat vague description afforded by the ancient chroniclers, to have been a sort of vegetable marrow.

Such changes, according to the Professor, who is prepared to maintain that evidence of an historical nature exists sufficient to prove that the White Ladies formed at one time an actual living community, must be taken in an allegorical sense. Just as modern lunatics believe themselves to be china vases or poll-parrots, and think and behave as such, so it must have been easy, the Professor argues, for beings of superior intelli-


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 gence to have exerted hypnotic influence upon the superstitious savages by whom they were surrounded, and who, intellectually considered, could have been little more than children.

"Take Nebuchadnezzar." I am still quoting the Professor. "Nowadays we should put him into a strait-waistcoat. Had he lived in Northern Europe instead of Southern Asia, legend would have told us how some Kobold or Stromkarl had turned him into a composite amalgamation of a serpent, a cat and a kangaroo." Be that as it may, this passion for change—in other people—seems to have grown upon Malvina until she must have become little short of a public nuisance, and eventually it landed her in trouble.

The incident is unique in the annals of the White Ladies, and the chroniclers dwell upon it with evident satisfaction. It came about through the betrothal of King Heremon's only son, Prince Gerbot, to the Princess Berchta of Normandy. Malvina seems to have said nothing, but to have bided her time. The White Ladies of Brittany, it must be remembered, were not fairies pure and simple. Under certain conditions they were capable


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 of becoming women, and this fact, one takes it, must have exerted a disturbing influence upon their relationships with eligible male mortals. Prince Gerbot may not have been altogether blameless. Young men in those sadly unenlightened days may not, in their dealings with ladies, white or otherwise, have always been the soul of discretion and propriety. One would like to think the best of her.

But even the best is indefensible. On the day appointed for the wedding she seems to have surpassed herself. Into what particular shape or form she altered the wretched Prince Gerbot; or into what shape or form she persuaded him that he had been altered, it really, so far as the moral responsibility of Malvina is concerned, seems to be immaterial; the chronicle does not state: evidently something too indelicate for a self-respecting chronicler to even hint at. As, judging from other passages in the book, squeamishness does not seem to have been the author's literary failing, the sensitive reader can feel only grateful for the omission. It would have been altogether too harrowing.

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 view, the desired effect. The Princess Berchta appears to have given one look and then to have fallen fainting into the arms of her attendants. The marriage was postponed indefinitely, and Malvina, one sadly suspects, chortled. Her triumph was short-lived.

Unfortunately for her, King Heremon had always been a patron of the arts and science of his period. Among his friends were to be reckoned magicians, genii, the Nine Korrigans or Fays of Brittany—all sorts of parties capable of exerting influence, and, as events proved, only too willing. Ambassadors waited upon Queen Harbundia; and Harbundia, even had she wished, as on many previous occasions, to stand by her favourite, had no alternative. The fairy Malvina was called upon to return to Prince Gerbot his proper body and all therein contained.

She flatly refused. A self-willed, obstinate fairy, suffering from swelled head. And then there was that personal note. Merely that he should marry the Princess Berchta! She would see King Heremon, and Anniamus, in his silly old wizard's robe, and the Fays of Brittany, and all the rest of them! A really nice White Lady may


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. Yes, you! We noticed it.

. Why didn't you stay home if you wanted to sleep?

. Home is the one place where the poor man cannot sleep. Don't disturb him.—Make yourself comfortable. Lie down in the other room if you want to.

. Don't bother about him, he is used to it. He is perfectly well; he can get along without sleep. I am different. As it is, I am so thin you would hardly know me. My face isn't bad, but I wish you could see my legs.

. They can judge by mine.

. There is no comparison. He only wants to attract attention.

. Don't you believe it. If you encourage her, she will be at death's door. I not only lose my sleep, but I get up early in the morning and go to the office and work there all day, and then, when I come home, all this is extra. I get no relief.

. At least you have the variety. Here I am, shut up all day inside of four walls, with five wild animals and a servant girl, when we happen to have one. None of them sticks it out more than four days.

. Now you have a description of a terrestrial paradise.

. Good evening. Good evening, everybody.

. Sit down; oblige me. Don't disturb yourselves.

. But I must. I cannot usurp your position.

. Gracious, Manolo! We are not sentimental. Did you finish your work?

. Yes, Galán kindly offered to take my dictation, so we were able to conclude earlier.