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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Did you ever see such a stived-up hole, Mis Morgeson?" "I like it now," she answered, "it is so comfortable. How lovely this blue is!" "It's a pity she wont keep the blinds shut. The curtains will fade to rags in no time; the sun pours on 'em." "How could I watch the sea then?" I asked. "Good Lord! it's a mystery to me how you can bother over that salt water."
But, really, I haven't the smallest vocation to be a missionary, not the smallest. I can't think of any thing that would induce me to take a long, hot ride in the sun, and to sit in that stived-up room with those common creatures." John looked grave. "Lillie," he said, "you shouldn't speak of any of your fellow-beings in that heartless way."
But there was something else which Ned ought to have, and might have; and this was intercourse with his kind, free circulation, free air, instead of the stived-up house, with the breeze from the graveyard blowing over it, to be drawn out of himself, and made to share the life of many, to be introduced, at one remove, to the world with which he was to contend.
Conceive the glorious freedom of wickedness unrestrained, after the stived-up atmosphere of the gaol, with its maddening Sunday chapel and its hideous possibilities of public torture for any revolt against the unendurable routine. We, nowadays, read with a shudder of the enormities that were common in the prisons of past times we, who only know of their modern substitutes.
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