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"I wish, Maurice, we had never come here," said she, piteously, when he recounted to her the scene of the gaol-gang. "These unhappy men will do you some frightful injury one of these days." "Stuff!" said her husband. "They've not the courage. I'd take the best man among them, and dare him to touch me." "I cannot think how you like to witness so much misery and villainy.
Dawes had asked him for this flower, offering two days' rations for it. Hankey, who is not a bad-hearted man, gave him the sprig. "There were tears in his eyes as he took it," said he. There must be some way to get at this man's heart, bad as he seems to be. August 28th. Hankey was murdered yesterday. He applied to be removed from the gaol-gang, but Frere refused.
The way Frere has dealt with this petition is characteristic of him, and fills me at once with admiration and disgust. He came down with it in his hand to the gaol-gang, walked into the yard, shut the gate, and said, "I've just got this from my overseers. They say they're afraid you'll murder them as you murdered Hankey. Now, if you want to murder, murder me. Here I am. Step out, one of you."
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