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His fatalistic resignation somewhat moved me. He was inwardly convinced that he was going to his death. But I appreciated his sparing a little of his bare ten minutes to give me a parting visit. I also thank him for remembering me as he had promised. Shortly after he had gone the gaoler came to my cell with a sack of fresh straw to serve as a mattress.
Having promised to pay for the monk, the old publican, who had no large sum of money about him, struck out the idea of making portraits at a crown apiece. By the help of a gaoler, he procured a supply of small black frames in which to put pretty little designs in hair which he executed with considerable cleverness.
"Am I to understand, Sir Percival, that your wife's room is a prison, and that your housemaid is the gaoler who keeps it?" I asked. "Yes, that is what you are to understand," he answered. "Take care my gaoler hasn't got double duty to do take care your room is not a prison too." "Take YOU care how you treat your wife, and how you threaten ME," I broke out in the heat of my anger.
I thought nothing more probable than the entrance after them of a gaoler laden with gyves and handcuffs; and saluting M. Francois with a face which, do what I would, fashioned itself upon his, I had scarce composure sufficient to place the poor accommodation of my room at his disposal.
But the Lady Castlewood went back from him, putting back her hood, and leaning against the great stanchioned door which the gaoler had just closed upon them.
I know it is the practice of some lords of manors, never to hire a gamekeeper unless he will engage always to swear that which, right or wrong, will convict a poacher: and I now believe that it is also a requisite qualification for a turnkey to swear that which will please the gaoler.
Day after day they were subjected to the disgusting importunities of these men men who a little while before had been vaunting their patriotism and loudly expressing a desire to prove it by hanging these same Reformers. The gaoler Du Plessis, representing himself as having been sent by the President, suggested to the four men that they should 'make a petition. They declined to do so.
The day it was all settled the head gaoler comes to me, and says he, 'Richard Marston, the Governor and Council has been graciously pleased to order that you be discharged from her Majesty's gaol upon the completion of twelve years of imprisonment; the term of three years' further imprisonment being remitted on account of your uniform good conduct while in the said gaol. You are now free!
"By jingo!" cried the skipper, "you're the right man in the right place!" "Faith, that's what the gaolor s'id to the burghlor, sor, when he fixed him up noicely on the treadmill!" The skipper laughed. "Well, you fix up your job all right, and you'll be as good as your friend the gaoler," he said. "When we have the helm all alaunto again, we can bear up on our course and jog along comfortably.
For a gaoler is only a fellow-captive." "May I inquire, Herr Gordon," asked Otto, "what led you to accept this dangerous and I would fain hope thankless office?" "Very natural, I am sure," replied the officer of fortune. "My pay is, in the meanwhile, doubled." "Well, sir, I will not presume to criticise," returned the Prince. "And I perceive the carriage."
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