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"Pretty bad?" he repeated, taking a long breath. "If you want to know what I think about it, sir, I think that it's a damnable disgrace. Pretty bad! By God, sir, do you call having a gaol-bird for a grandson pretty bad?" "Stop, sir!" called Dan, sharply.
It was this, and the fact that she had not a particle of love for her husband, that gave her such a hatred of coition. When her mother saw the sheets the morning after the marriage she burst out crying; she did not like the young man and saw she had been deceived. A.'s husband soon showed his true character; he was in reality a gaol-bird.
In spite of his own anger, something far from being either assumed or inconsiderable, Lanyard was fain to pause, a few paces from the deck-house, and laugh quietly at a vast and incoherent booming which was resounding in the room he had just quitted Captain Osborne trying to do justice to the emotions inspired in his virtuous bosom by the cheek of this damned gaol-bird.
I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
You are afraid that I'll come to Prague, that I'll visit you and cry out to your fashionable circle: 'I, Ferdinand Lassalle, the pernicious demagogue of all your journals, Governmental and Progressive alike, the thief of the casket-trial, the Jew-traitor, the gaol-bird, I am the brother-in-law of your host, And so you've rushed to Berlin to break off with me. Ho, ho, ho!"
I've allowed him thirteen shillings a week till Christmas, and he says, `Thank you. He's had his name turned inside out, and I do believe he thinks it an improvement! He sticks in the place all day with that young cockney gaol-bird you picked us up too, Durfy, and never growls." "Does he help himself to any of the money?" "Not a brass farthing!
"That 'poor man, Betty," answered Patricia in a hard voice, "is a criminal, a felon, guilty of some dreadful, sordid thing, a gaol-bird reclaimed from the gallows and sent here to pollute the air we breathe." "It was the convict, Landless, was it not?" asked Sir Charles. "Yes." "But, Patricia," said the gentle Betty, "whatever he may have done, he is wretched now."
But I got a kind of fever in my blood, and night and day I only thought of one thing, and that was my chance of escape. I did escape, never you mind how, that's a long story, and I got back to England, a free man; a free man, Madge, I thought; but the world soon told me another story. I was a felon, a gaol-bird; and I was never more to lift my head amongst honest people.
"Must ha' been built up top-heavy," said the Elder to himself: and with that, running his lantern-ray along the yard wall, he caught sight of a small bare leg and a few inches of striped skirt for an instant before they slid into darkness across the coping. He recognised them. "This beats Old Harry!" muttered the Elder. "Bringin' up the child to be a gaol-bird now and on my premises!
So old Morley Tarrant was a gaol-bird! Hence it was but natural that Rudolph Rayne, who preserved such a high degree of respectability, would hesitate to meet him providing he knew that the police were watching. He certainly knew that, hence the secrecy of their appointment. As we walked Madame suddenly emerged from the French windows of the drawing-room and joined us.
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