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"Good-by, then, for the present," said the new chaplain. "Why, where are you going?" "In here." "What, into the dark cell?" "Yes!" "Well!" ejaculated Evans. "You won't stay there long." "Until you return, Lepel." "What a fancy!" Mr. Jones looked not a little surprised. The turnkey grinned. The reverend gentleman stepped at once into the cell and was lost to sight.
"No, it would be inhuman." "No, it wouldn't," persisted the voice of the Pit; "not in this instance. It's too much talk that has made the poor child ill." The turnkey would not be guided by us. He opened the cell door amidst the execrations of the whole house. She talked to her child for about five minutes, at the end of which time it died. "Ah, he is dead!" shrieked the distressed parent.
Why worse! even when he is sitting with his wife, he and she might as well be communicating with each other across a grille against which a turnkey is standing and listening to every word said! Let him imagine how flattering for her! She might be more flattered, at any rate more thrilled, if she knew that instead of thinking about his business he was thinking about another woman.
I had no more business to go to the East Indies than a man at full liberty has to go to the turnkey at Newgate, and desire him to lock him up among the prisoners there, and starve him.
May which of the Stoneborough clergy had better be written to as likely to be influential with him. Dr. May recommended Mr. Wilmot, as having visited the boy in his illness, as well as prepared him for Confirmation; and then, with a heavier load of sadness on his heart, followed the turnkey on his melancholy way.
But he afterwards acted upon the suggestion. "Good-b'ye, Jack," said Figg, putting on his hat. "Rather in the way. Send you the shirt. Here, turnkey. Couple of guineas to drink Captain Sheppard's speedy escape. Thank him, not me, man. Give this fellow the slip, if you can, Jack. If not, keep up your spirits. Die game." "Never fear," replied Jack.
Ben and he carried the turnkey, whom they had tied hand and foot with handkerchiefs and neckties, into the interior of the cell, left him there, locked the door on him, and immediately ran along the passage, turned a corner, and came in sight of an iron grating, on the other side of which sat a man in a dress similar to that of the turnkey they had left behind them.
"How," exclaimed the Duchess d'Aiguillon, "do you want to give this bed to another prisoner? Is Madame de Beauharnais to have a better one?" The turnkey burst into a coarse laugh. "Alas! no," said he, with a significant gesture, "Citoyenne Beauharnais will soon need a bed no more." Her friends broke into tears; but Josephine remained composed and quite.
'That, said the turnkey, 'is agen her. 'She is so little used to go out alone, said the debtor, 'that I am at a loss to think how she will ever make her way here, if she walks. 'P'raps, quoth the turnkey, 'she'll take a ackney coach. 'Perhaps. The irresolute fingers went to the trembling lip. 'I hope she will. She may not think of it.
The turnkey opened the door to bring the earl a light, and to ask whether he had any orders to give. Heretofore it had been the king's special command not to allow him a light in his cell; and he had spent these six long evenings and nights of his imprisonment in darkness. But to-day they were willing to give him a light; to-day they were willing to allow him everything that he might still desire.
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