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"Self-deceiver, you have been growing to it for years, your corruption has been gradual, and this is the natural result. You will go on now; each time it will come easier to you, until you grow to think nothing of it. Read your future outcast, jail-bird." "No, no; I will lead a new life, work hard, avoid bad company." "Avoid bad company! I like that! What company can be worse than your own now?"
Waters was frankly aghast; this, upon the top of his other troubles, was overwhelming. The istvostchik ruptured the moment with a brassy yell. "Wow!" he howled. "My Amerikanetz, the Foreigner, the jail-bird! Look at him, brothers!" He waved his whip as though the darkness were thronged with auditors. "Look at the jail-bird!" From the gate below the dull lamp a dvornik poked his head forth.
The truth would come out at the trial the whole truth the murder, and all. There's your child Bobby. You've done him enough wrong already. Do you want him but it doesn't matter whether you do or not do you want him to carry through life the fact that his father was a jail-bird and a murderer, just as Jo Byndon carries the scar you made when you threw her against the door?"
We topped the gap and were going down into a gully they called Dead Man's Hollow, and there, at the back of a ghostly clearing that opened from the road where there were some black-soil springs, was a long, low, oblong weatherboard-and-shingle building, with blind, broken windows in the gable-ends, and a wide steep verandah roof slanting down almost to the level of the window-sills there was something sinister about it, I thought like the hat of a jail-bird slouched over his eyes.
'You'd better not, I said: 'I'm a jail-bird an' a rascal, an' nobody alive wants to have anything to do with me. "'You be quiet, says Jerry. 'I'm a jail-bird myself, but the Lord Jesus has forgiven me an' made me happy; an' He'll do the same by you. "They kept me there a week, an' you'd think I was their own, the way they treated me.
But owing to the scarcity of business that now came my way, Theodore had little or nothing to do, and he was in very truth eating his head off, and with that, grumble, grumble all the time, threatening to leave me, if you please, to leave my service for more remunerative occupation. As if anyone else would dream of employing such an out-at-elbows mudlark a jail-bird, Sir, if you'll believe me.
His door was immediately swung open by a thump, and in the doorway stood the missing Blandois, the cause of many anxieties. 'Salve, fellow jail-bird! said he. 'You want me, it seems. Here I am! Before Arthur could speak to him in his indignant wonder, Cavalletto followed him into the room. Mr Pancks followed Cavalletto.
"I wanta be square," he cried passionately, "I wanta be square like you've been to us, an' an Luke said ye might not want a jail-bird here for Christmas. I stole coal for mom " It was the old tale, one boy caught, paying for the petty thievery of the score who ran away. The Doctor heard the mumbled tale to the end and cleared his throat. "And so," he said slowly, "you wanted to be square.
The worst of it was that this Cowperwood an upstart, a jail-bird, a stranger whom they had done their best to suppress financially and ostracize socially, had now become an attractive, even a sparkling figure in the eyes of the Chicago public. His views and opinions on almost any topic were freely quoted; the newspapers, even the most antagonistic, did not dare to neglect him.
Fortunately for the prisoners it is not very strictly adhered to at least not at the prison where I was confined the officers making allowance for the prisoners' infirmities. To show how it would operate, let us take the case of the clergyman and the jail-bird once more.
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