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Having now since the removal of Hawes given the separate and silent system a long and impartial trial, his last public act was to write at the foot of his report a solemn protest against it, as an impious and mad attempt to defy God's will as written on the face of man's nature to crush too those very instincts from which rise communities, cities, laws, prisons, churches, civilization and to wreck souls and bodies under pretense of curing souls, not by knowledge, wisdom, patience, Christian love, or any great moral effort, but by the easy and physical expedient of turning one key on each prisoner instead of on a score.
"Yes, I have the care of his soul, and how can I do his soul good if he loses his reason?" "Stuff! his reason's safe enough, what little he has." "Do not say stuff! Do not be rash where the stake is so great, or confident where you have no knowledge. You have never been in the dark cell, Mr. Hawes; I have, and I assure you it tried my nerves to the uttermost.
But there was no other way of getting any lace to trim her summer blouse, and since Ally Hawes, the poorest girl in the village, had shown herself in church with enviable transparencies about the shoulders, Charity's hook had travelled faster. She unrolled the lace, dug the hook into a loop, and bent to the task with furrowed brows.
Hawes into the cells with us." "Why do you do that, pray?" "We conceive that nothing would be gained by encouraging the refuse of mankind to make frivolous complaints against their best friend." Here the speaker and his mates wore a marked air of self-satisfaction. "Well, sir! has the present examination in no degree shaken your confidence in Mr. Hawes's discretion?" "Not in the least."
A greater than he was in that cell, and he was dumb. He looked up Hodges and Fry were standing silent, looking down on the body. Fry was grave; Hodges trembled. Part of a handkerchief fluttered from the bar of the window. A knife had severed it. The other fragment lay on the floor near the body, where Hodges had dropped it. Hawes took this in at a glance and comprehended it all.
Hawes himself." "By all means; that will be the best way of making friends again. I need not tell you that a jail could not go on in which the governor and the chaplain did not pull together. The fact is, Mr. Jones, the clergy, of late, have been assuming a little too much, and that has made the laity a little jealous.
Unlike some young people who are obliged to struggle against adverse and unpropitious circumstances, and who urge their way to usefulness and happiness under the heavy pressure of want and embarrassment, Miss Hawes had every current in her favor, and the whole tide of circumstances conspired to make her what she afterwards became.
But whether Will grew tired of his companion, or of the dangerous trade which he was engaged in, certain it is that he left it off, and got again out of England on ship-board. Oakey then got acquainted with Hawes, Milksop, Lincoln, Reading, Wilkinson, and half a dozen others, with whom one way or other he was continually concerned while they reigned in their villainies.
"Will you please give him this?" I reached forth my hand and upon my palm she placed a locket. "I know that if you study law, Mr. Hawes, you will get him out. You are so strong that you can do most anything. Good-bye, and when you write to Guinea, send her my love." Four weeks passed and heavy were the days with anxiety, for I had received no word from Guinea.
"Oh! ah! yes! well, then, I need say no more; good-day, Mr. Jones." "Good-morning, sir." Soon after this up came Hawes with a cheerful countenance. "Well, parson, are you to manage the prisoners and I to preach to them, or are we to go on as we are?" "Things are to go on as they are, Mr. Hawes; but that is nothing to me, I have discharged my conscience.
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