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Updated: May 1, 2025
She refused to be in the slightest on the defensive. There was nothing to defend, nothing to explain. Everything was all right, and it was nobody's business anyway. This attitude but served to vex Sarah. "I warned you, and you can't say I didn't," her diatribe ran. "I always knew he was no good, a jailbird, a hoodlum, a slugger.
When he faced her again, his voice trembled with suppressed excitement. He spoke rapidly: "I may as well out with it. You want to know why I didn't get that position in the bank? It is because my father, J. Stillwell Stoker, died behind the bars of a penitentiary! I'm the son of a jailbird a defaulter and a forger! That's why the bank didn't want me.
"It belongs to me and I am bound to have it." "You are a jailbird, Mr. Baxter. How can you hold such a property now?" The criminal winced and clenched his fists. "Don't be quite so plain-spoken, Rover, it doesn't set well. I say the claim is mine." "Well?" "You are in my power." "Granted." "Isn't your life worth something to you? To be sure it is. Then why not try to make terms to save it?"
The men named stepped forward with some evidences of embarrassment, and Cosmo gravely gave them seats beside him. Then he commanded that the prisoners should confront the jury, and, heavily guarded, they were led to the front. The brutishness of Campo's face had never struck the passengers who had seen him before as it did now. He looked a veritable jailbird.
Ellicott asked pardon inwardly for the lie with a false humility if Nancy will not save herself from this young man whom she has always disliked and who has just admitted to being a jailbird in fact and a drunkard by implication, she will. "I should think you would find it easier hearing this from me than you would from her. She has found it easier to say." "But, Mrs. Ellicott "
She was nearly bursting with rage, but there was nothing to do, and she was obliged to content herself with whispering hoarsely, "Rascal! rascal! jailbird! thief!" whenever she passed me.
Since he had had that interview down by the creek he had been much more reconciled to leaving Marley. "What if I had the burden to carry about with me that Mr. Keeler has!" he often told himself. "The consciousness that my brother was a scoundrel, a jailbird!" The family moved into their city home early in September.
Cox, her husband, and her granddaughters. Chester, now about thirty years old, had been pardoned because of late evidence in his favour, when a five- year term for burglary was but one quarter served, but in his old father's eyes a jailbird was a jailbird, and Chester was still in some mysterious way to blame. Mrs.
And if they catch Oskar you had better see that they let him go at once unless you want to see your own daughter married to a jailbird!" It was nine o'clock that evening when, growling and grumbling, Hicks himself moved heavily down the short corridor of the jail, and unlocked the door of the cell that held Oskar Hedin. "Come on out!" he commanded.
I seen him myself, day before yesterday, going down street. Thinks I, 'Who can that be? There was something kind of queer about the way he dragged his feet. What you going to do about it, Judge? Have we got to put up with having a jailbird, as crazy as a loon into the bargain, living right here in our midst?"
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