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Then the head-gaoler's stress upon the word "result!" What did that portend? New fears crept into my mind. So when M , the under-gaoler, came round next morning, I badgered him, but he would say no more than that the trial had not yet come off. I was completely unnerved and now commenced to fear the worst.
It is bad grammar now to use a singular verb with a plural noun; but in 1556 it was correct English over the whole south of England, and the use of the singular with the singular, or the plural with the plural, was a peculiarity of the northern dialect. "They always doth," answered the under-gaoler.
Directly the officer had gone I rang the emergency bell. M , the under-gaoler, answered it. With a tremendous effort I pulled myself together. "So I'm going to be shot in the morning," I ventured, in the hope of drawing some comment. "Ach! What? Lie down and keep quiet!" was his stolid retort. "Look here! I want to write to my wife. Can you get me a pencil and a sheet of paper?" "Impossible!"
The consequence was that Sir Robert Wilson, Bruce, and Hutchinson, were tried for aiding the escape of a prisoner; and each of them was condemned to three months' imprisonment: the under-gaoler, who had evidently been well paid for services rendered, had two years' confinement allotted to him.
They were of coarse material, such as neither gaoler nor under-gaoler would ever wear themselves: all they would do would be to take them into market and convert them into money. "Moors have no feelings," people say, and say wrongly; but that, to a great extent, it is true take just one instance the state of the prisons and prisoners. It was enough in the distance to "wind" the Tetuan prison.
He had not responded to his country's call, upon mobilisation, with the celerity which the officials declared he should have shown. As a punishment he was committed to the cells for three days. Upon the expiration of this sentence he had been made under-gaoler. His name was M , and he told me he had a prosperous business outside Germany.
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