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He'd lived in the days when we were at war with France and America, and when Princetown sprang up, and a gert war-prison was built there to cage all the chaps we got on our hands through winning such a lot o' sea battles. And Miser Brimpson was said to have made thousands by helping rich fellows to escape from the prison. Truth and falsehood mixed made up his story as 'twas handed down.
There's a superstition about that particular picture: tattooed across the back and loins it's supposed to protect them, in a moderate degree, against flogging." "Well," said Miss Belcher, "his belonging to the Navy seems likely enough. It accounts, in one way, for his finding himself in a French war-prison. Go on, Jack."
For his particular offence, I would have had the old hulks maintained in the Hamoaze, with all their severities; as it is, the posturer may find Dartmoor pretty stiff, but will yet have the consolation of herding with his betters." Strangely enough this speech did more to fix Dorothea's resolve than all she had read or heard of the rigours of the war-prison.
He conned me curiously. "You don't look like a Britisher, either." "I trust not. I am the Viscount Anne de Kéroual de Saint-Yves, escaped from a British war-prison." "Lucky for you if you prove it. We'll get to the bottom of this." He faced about and called, "Who's the first officer of this brig?" Reuben Colenso was allowed to step forward.
Stimcoe in his bedroom at least, I hope so, for he suffers from a hallucination that some person or persons unknown have incarcerated him in a French war-prison, such being the effect of to-day's er proceedings upon his highly strung nature. The illusion being granted, one can hardly be surprised at his resenting it." I nodded, and promised to do my best.
Her furniture was topsy-turvy, and her hair in curl-papers; she obviously did not expect visitors, and resented this curtailment of the honeymoon. She showed it even when Dorothea, after apologies, came straight to the point: "Polly, I am very unhappy." "Indeed, Miss?" "You know that I must be, since M. Raoul is going to that horrible war-prison rather than let the truth be known."
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