Word: quislinged
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Vidkun Quisling sobbed at the thought of Vidkun Quisling. In lachrymose lethargy, he listened as Attorney Henrik Bergh last week pleaded his hopeless case, tried to list his virtues. But even the conscientious lawyer had a hard time finding virtues in Quisling.
Then, pale as death, Quisling himself launched into a two-day plea for his life. He did not deny any of the state's major charges, but he claimed to have saved Norway from becoming a battlefield. He even boasted of his sentimental friendship with Hitler. With evangelical fervor...
Then the trial was over. Seven judges and jurors (among them a plumber, a factory worker, a bookkeeper, a barber) retired to judge a man long ago judged by the world. For three days and three nights, Vidkun Quisling waited.
Even Norwegian patience was strained when again & again Quisling said that he did not remember (he did not even remember forming his traitorous government). But that shabby device failed him when he heard his own voice, in a recording of his "inauguration speech," grating through the courtroom. Said he when...
It was Quisling all right, and nobody pitied him.