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Under the Conventicle Act his goods had been distrained; and he had been flung into one noisome gaol after another among highwaymen and housebreakers.

Then, lifting his head to the stars, he cried, "O God, do it again, but slowly, that I, Adam, may see." But nothing happened, and the doolie-bearers lit the noisome, dripping rag torches, and Adam's eyes shone big in the dancing light, and we smelt the dry dust of the plains that we were leaving after eleven months' hard work.

Here and there a gloomy old palace, solitary among the squalid houses and filthy courts, stood between two noisome ditches, with a forlorn air of trying to preserve its ancient dignity and yet of knowing the effort to be a hopeless one. Some of the alleys, he knew, were notorious dens of thieves, cut-throats, and smugglers; others were merely wretched and poverty-stricken.

To the wretch's ear it was a rhyme! I destroyed the noisome thing and cast it into the waste-paper basket. "Prison," said I, "would be a luxurious reward for him. In a properly civilised country he would be bastinadoed and hanged." "Yes, he is dam bad," said Carlotta, serenely. "Good heavens!" I cried, "the ruffian has even taught you to swear.

"Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, Where the noisome insect stings, Where the fever-demon strews Poison with the falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air: Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters Woe is me, my stolen daughters!"

Juliette sat there, calm, impassive, disdainful, and she seemed to Deroulede more angelic, more unattainable even than before. He could have worshipped her for her heroism, her resourcefulness, her quiet aloofness from all these coarse creatures who filled the room with the odour of their dirty clothes, with their rough jests, and their noisome suggestions.

It was a pity that so many weeks of dreary labor should have come to naught at last. They showed us the noisome cell where the celebrated "Iron Mask" that ill-starred brother of a hardhearted king of France was confined for a season before he was sent to hide the strange mystery of his life from the curious in the dungeons of Ste. Marguerite.

"God! they gave me an awful knock!" "Why have we been spared, Smith? Do you think he is saving us for " "Don't, Petrie! If you had been in China, if you had seen what I have seen " Footsteps sounded on the flagged passage. A blade of light crept across the floor towards us. My brain was growing clearer. The place had a damp, earthen smell. It was slimy some noisome cellar.

Standing over these noisome heaps, you will see scores of tattered wretches, armed with old rakes and picking-irons, turning over the dirt, and making as much of a rope-yarn as if it were a skein of silk.

We, in Europe, have gone a step or two further, have had the time to forget how little that freedom means. To Russia it must seem everything. A prisoner shut up in a noisome dungeon concentrates all his hope and desire on the moment of stepping out beyond the gates.