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And Ed Morrell to the Warden: "Your mother must have been damn fond of children to have raised you." It was really an offence to me when the jacketing ceased. I sadly missed that dream world of mine. But not for long. I found that I could suspend animation by the exercise of my will, aided mechanically by constricting my chest and abdomen with the blanket.
At last, getting on a rise of the road where I could see over the winding walls ahead, I made out a Talayot sprouting gray from amid its green jacketing, barely half a kilometre away; and from the description given at Mahon, that must be the very one I had worked so hard to reach. The limit of self-containment was passed. Excitement bubbled over. I picked up my feet and ran for all I was worth.
When you get home, your husband will give you a jacketing until you can stand no more. Come now, simply say 'yes, and then you will be quit of the sot." To which the wife, crying hysterically, replied: "I am an honest woman! I will not have that indignity put upon me! I don't want to be divorced!"
"And you've the heart of a rabbit," I retorted. "One-tenth the jacketing I have received in San Quentin would have squeezed your rabbit heart out of your long ears." Oh, it was a touch, that, for the Warden did have unusual ears. They would have interested Lombroso, I am sure.
But I had grown too used to the jacket during my incorrigible days to let a single jacketing injure me. Naturally, it weakened me, took the life out of me; but I had learned muscular tricks for stealing a little space while they were lacing me. At the end of the first hundred hours' bout I was worn and tired, but that was all.
Withers' lumpy figure loomed up grotesquely against the yellow murk. "Is that you, Master Robert? You'd better run up quick. Your aunt is going to give you a jacketing, I can tell you." "Aunt" was the term with which Mrs. Withers covered up what she considered privately to be an ambiguous relationship. Robert slunk past her. He crawled upstairs with an aggressive deliberation.
The brute physical torture of it was humiliation and affront to my spirit and to my sense of justice. Such discipline does not sweeten a man. I emerged from that first jacketing filled with a bitterness and a passionate hatred that has only increased through the years. My God when I think of the things men have done to me! Twenty-four hours in the jacket!
"The water jacketing seems thoroughly carried out; and when the party's assembled on deck, it will hear no more noise than the buzzing of a big bee, as the exhaust is led away below the water-line. It won't be bad in the cabins either, even when they keep the sliding door open, for this screen of thick sail-cloth will deaden what sound there is.
Once he even promised me three months in the hospital of absolute rest and good food, and then the trusty job in the library. Dr. Jackson, a weak stick of a creature with a smattering of medicine, grew sceptical. He insisted that jacketing, no matter how prolonged, could never kill me; and his insistence was a challenge to the Warden to continue the attempt.
And then, just as I was growing accustomed to this rhythm, it was suddenly altered and I was given two days and nights straight. And ever the eternal question was propounded to me: Where was the dynamite? Sometimes Warden Atherton was furious with me. On occasion, when I had endured an extra severe jacketing, he almost pleaded with me to confess.
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