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Stock's heart nearly failed him as he passed through the prison. The groans of the sick and dying, and, what to such a heart as his was still more moving, the brutal merriment of the healthy in such a place, pierced his very soul. The jailor observed him drop a tear, and asked the cause. "I can not forget," said he, "that the most dissolute of these men is still my fellow creature.
But Rowena declined, by her gesture, the proffered compliment, and replied, "If I be in the presence of my jailor, Sir Knight nor will circumstances allow me to think otherwise it best becomes his prisoner to remain standing till she learns her doom."
Lucas, has lost up to date, 32 negroes the best part of her primest negroes on her plantation." "Found. She is about 30 years of age, and is a LUNATIC. The owner is requested to come forward, prove property, pay charges, and take her away, or SHE WILL BE SOLD TO PAY HER JAIL FEES. FRED'K HOME, Jailor."
These last were not delivered from their chains, but lived in hourly expectation of being led out to execution. After Ra-Ruth's removal, Laihova was at first overwhelmed with despair, but when a friendly jailor informed him of her having been spared under the supposition that she was insane, hope revived a little, though he could not help seeing that the prospect ahead was still very black.
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As they walked along the path from the fort to Jamestown's one street he asked: "Tell me, my little jailor, how came The Powhatan to set me free? I have wondered every day since, and I cannot understand. Thou didst prevail with him, was it not so?" "Aye," answered the girl.
Glossin," said be, in, a whispering voice. "Call louder," answered Dirk Hatteraick. "Mr. Glossin, for God's sake come away!" "He'll hardly do that without help," said Hatteraick. "What are you chattering there for, Mac-Guffog?" called out the captain from below. "Come away, for God's sake. Mr. Glossin!" repeated the. turnkey. At this moment the jailor made his appearance with a light.
But after awhile, the task of feeding us was taken from the jailor, who had at first assumed it, and then our fare became worse than it ever had been before. The jailor himself was a kind man, and rather of Union sentiments. He showed us all the favor in his power, and, indeed, became so much suspected, that an odious old man named Thoer was hired to watch him.
Philip was pacing to and fro like a man in violent agitation. At the other side of the wall the confused murmur had risen to a sharp crackle of many voices. The constable came back with the Clerk of the Court and the jailor. "Everything ready, your Excellency," said the Clerk of the Court. The constable turned the key of the door, and laid his hand on the knob.
Sometimes the prisoner, I was told, is not even produced in court, but remains in his cell while his liberty and life are hanging in the balance. At day-break his prison-door opens, and the jailor enters, holding in his hand a little slip of paper. Ah! well does the prisoner know what that is.
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