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"For what reason is this woman here," asked Gall, "for her head announces no propensity to theft?" The answer was, "She is the inspectress of this room." One prisoner had the organs of benevolence and of religion as strongly developed as those of theft and cunning; and his boast was, that he never had committed an act of violence, and that it was repugnant to his feelings to rob a church.
In the man who was their leader I recognized one of those messengers who had accosted us when first we entered their territory on our way from the south, before that fight in which I was taken prisoner.
But why why him when Hume was still a prisoner? The Hunter raised his head so his eyes could meet Vye's with the authority of an order. "Go, get away while you can!" Instead Vye dropped down beside the other. "Why?" he asked baldly. And then the most obvious of all answers came. He glanced at Hume.
"Oh, dey vas by der house und eat supper den." "Did you see the prisoner again that day?" "No, I didn' see heem dot day no more, bot dot next day I seen heem goot I seen heem." Harry King here asked his counsel to object to his allowing the witness to continually assert that the man he saw was the prisoner. "He does not know that it was I. He is mistaken as are you all."
Estada is dead; Manuel is a prisoner. I'm in command of this bark, and I am going to give you a lesson for the benefit of the crew. You are a big, boasting cur! I heard what you said when I came down, and now I'll make you prove it. You other fellows stand back I'll make this beast fight."
Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, had sworn not to enter the kingdom for three years, but he now returned; whereupon the chancellor seized him while at mass, and kept him prisoner.
This man had been pressed on board a British man of war, and was given up as such; but instead of being sent home as he ought, he was detained a prisoner of war, and yet this unfortunate man exposed his life in fighting for the British off Cape St. Vincents, as much as the noble Lord himself. Such is the difference of rewards in this chequered world!
So far from that, he was already doing everything, in act and thought, by which that going might be made more certain and immediate. Elizabeth found the prisoner sitting before his untasted supper. She went up the room at a rapid pace. "Strength does not come of fasting," said she, as she glanced at the table.
He is now in deep trouble, and is held a prisoner in New York, at the instigation of the Adams Express Company, who charge him with having robbed them of some fifty thousand dollars. They charge him with committing this robbery in Montgomery, but hold him in New York. I went South for the purpose of getting a requisition for his immediate return to Montgomery.
Having caught her cloak against something, she detached it carefully, without any haste, and sat down. The third prisoner was Maslova. As soon as she appeared, the eyes of all the men in the court turned her way, and remained fixed on her white face, her sparklingly-brilliant black eyes and the swelling bosom under the prison cloak.
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