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On the other hand, he is very far from being a "ne'er-do-weel," as the Scotch phrase it, or an imprudent person. He does not play at "Aunt Sally" on a public race-course, he does not wrench knockers from the doors of slumbering citizens; he has never seen the interior of a police-cell. It is quite true, he has a peculiar way of looking at many things.
'That's what'll happen to you, I shouldn't wonder. 'Arry cast a glance towards his mother. Seeing that her eyes were fixed in another direction, he began pantomimic interrogation of Alice. The latter disregarded him. 'Arry presented an appearance less than engaging. He still bore the traces of last night's debauch and of his sojourn in the police-cell.
As it was, his air of good breeding and culture quite accounted for the name the people gave him. I should have found it impossible to imagine him in a police-cell had I not been a midnight wanderer for long. "How did you come to learn shorthand?"
"He seems, at any rate, to reckon you high amongst them, since he gave your name." "Gave my name? To whom?" "Oh, I don't know to the magistrate or the policeman or whoever it is. I have never been in a police-cell myself," she added, with a small smile. "Is Herbert, then, in a police-cell?" She nodded. "At Vine Street. He wants to be bailed out." "What amount?"
He therefore fell back on a demand to be allowed to communicate with the English Ambassador; and that night Maitland of Gatien's passed, for the first time during his blameless career, in a police-cell. It were superfluous to set down in detail all the humiliations endured by Maitland.
Another Dublin case quoted by the same authority was that of a young girl who, upon being arrested and committed to a police-cell in a state of furious drunkenness, tore out both her eyes. In such cases, as a rule, the finger-nails are the only instrument used. There is a French case also quoted of a woman of thirty-nine who had borne children in rapid succession.
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