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Updated: May 31, 2025
"I'm messenger to Square S , the one he had was discharged on Friday last. I expect soon to be made groom, too." "Come this way," said the jailer, "and you shall have an answer." He brought Phelim into the prison-yard, where he remained for about twenty minutes, laboring under impressions which he felt becoming gradually more unpleasant.
A redistribution of prisoners was being made, and we were taken to another cell and locked in two galleries higher up. Early next morning our cells were unlocked, and down in the hall the several hundred prisoners of us formed the lock-step and marched out into the prison-yard to go to work. The Erie Canal runs right by the back yard of the Erie County Penitentiary.
Jacques Collin's wig was eminently ecclesiastical, and wonderfully natural. "Hallo!" said la Pouraille to le Biffon, "that's a bad sign! A rook! How did he come here?" To complete our study of the prison-yard, two more of the prisoners must be hastily sketched in.
As soon as we had secured the arms of the remainder, we could leave the prison-yard in a solid body, and pass on double-quick to the ferry-boat, which lay on our side of the river, not far distant. Once over the river, and thus armed, we would have been comparatively safe. The other plan, which we finally agreed to adopt, was proposed by Andrews.
He reared himself up to his huge, gaunt height, and with a sweeping glance at his captors added: "Nothing remains for me now I imagine, but to shake hands with Radcliffe. . . ." And his dreadful voice died away like a single grim note of a great, deep-toned bell, tolled perchance in some prison-yard. "Eshcorrt! Get ready!" boomed out Sergeant Slavin's harsh command.
This must be the prison-yard, where alone she might walk, since it lay at the back of the house; and with a sense of depression she turned to the task that awaited her. A very large foreign-looking case had been partly opened, and when she looked in she was appalled at the task to be accomplished in one day.
Now the window of his room, looking out on the prison-yard, had no handle to the fastening; and the bars, being fixed outside, were divided from his reach by the thickness of the wall, and could not be used for a support. This, then, was the plan hit upon by Lucien to put himself out of the world.
She had allowed the women who came to clothe her in bridal array to perform their task; among them was Emau, the chief warder's wife, and her overflowing compassion had done Paula good. But even in the prison-yard she had felt it unendurable to exhibit herself decked in her bridal wreaths to the gaping multitude; she had torn them from her and thrown them on the ground.
At last, I was freed from the manacles; and when the prison dress was brought to me to put on, in lieu of my own clothes, I requested leave from the gaoler to wash myself, which was granted; and, strange to say, so unaccustomed had I been to such a state of filth, that I felt a degree of happiness, as I returned from the pump in the prison-yard, and I put on the prison dress almost with pleasure; for degrading as it was, at all events, it was new and clean.
This terrible trio were at the further end of the prison-yard, that is to say, near the better class of cells. Fil-de-Soie was giving a lecture to a young man who was IN for his first offence, and who, being certain of ten years' penal servitude, was gaining information as to the various convict establishments.
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