prison-dignities

Updated: June 13, 2025

True dignities, as often as possible, stand at ease. But here indeed were no true strengths and dignities, only prison-strengths and prison-dignities. Here the majesties, the occupations, the offences, were alike frivolities, fantastically changed about into solemnities. That first impression of abject bowed heads and chains rattled beneath desks, was roughly correct.

Richard Le Gallienne - Young Lives