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Updated: June 12, 2025
I directed them to accompany me to the laboratory to clean out the furnace, whereat they both turned pale and flatly refused; and I saw them half an hour later secretly handing their boxes up the area steps to a man with a barrow. Obviously someone had told them something of my methods. "The cook and housemaid who succeeded them were jail-birds pure and simple.
Wesley engaged in an earnest work of evangelising his "brother jail-birds," as he called them; his conduct at this period more than realising the world-renowned picture which Goldsmith has drawn of his incarcerated Vicar of Wakefield.
"She's not bound to obey you," said Jemima; "she's your mother." "She is. And a nice respectable mother, too, to go mixing with a lot of low, swindling jail-birds! It's sickening!" "You've no right to talk like that, Sam," said Jemima, flushing up; "they're as honest as you are more so, perhaps. There!" "Go it; say on," said Samuel.
Mountains of argument have been built on these words, deux merles, "two jail-birds." One of the two, we shall see, became the source of the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. "The rogue's whole furniture and table-linen were sold for 1l. 19s. He only got a new suit of clothes every three years."
"That's where I belong, a jail-bird at whom everybody except other jail-birds looks askance. To think what I was once, and what I am now! It's enough to drive a man mad! As for repenting, bah! Who'd believe that I really repented, who'd give me a second chance on the faith of it? Not a soul. Repentance won't blot out the past.
The officer of health, and a variety of humbugs in cocked hats, are coming off to let us out of this at last: and all we jail-birds are to breakfast together in something approaching to a Christian style again, before we take wing for our different destinations. Tattycoram, stick you close to your young mistress.
Contrast with these the arbiters of their lives and deaths, the potentates of the same quarter who issue the warrants of arrest against them, who pen them in to speculate on them, and who revel at their expense and before their eyes: these consist of the members of the revolutionary committee of the Croix-Rouge, the eighteen convicted rogues and debauchees previously described, ex-cab-drivers, porters, cobblers, street-messengers, stevedores, bankrupts, counterfeiters, former or future jail-birds, all clients of the police or alms-house riff-raff.
The jail-birds will set an example of plunder and murder, and unless help comes before long, all London will be sacked. My men and apprentices are already engaged in carrying down to the cellars all my richest wares. The approach is by a trap-door, with a great stone over it in the yard, and it will, I hope, escape their search.
And at the back of all these budding artists and blossoming jail-birds, and in the same small desk sat the Brahmin youth and Oh Merciful Allah! Moussa Isa, Somali. The native gentleman in charge of the party from the Duri Reformatory had duly escorted his charges into the hall, handed them over to Mr.
"Oh, reassure yourself, madame!" he added quickly. "That state of things did not last long. Soon M. de Boiscoran got up, and said, 'Why, I am a fool to despair!" "Did you hear him say so?" asked the old lady. "Not I. It was Trumence who heard it." "Trumence?" "Yes, one of our jail-birds.
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