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He struggled furiously at first, like some wild animal in a net; and when resistance was hopeless the poor, half-witted creature lifted up his voice and uttered loud, wild-beast cries of pain and terror that rang through the vast prison. These horrible cries brought all the warders to the spot, and Mr. Eden.
He will be ordered about by warders, will have a number label fastened on to his coat, he will be locked in a cell with a spy-hole in the door, through which any passing stranger may watch him; his food will be handed to him in a tin pan with a tin knife and spoon; and he will be periodically called out of his cell and driven round the exercise yard with a mob composed, for the most part, of the sweepings of the London slums.
And yet, even then, in Sercq the sun shone soft and warm, the sky and sea were blue, the fouaille was golden-brown on the hillside, the young gorse was showing pale on the Eperquerie, and the Butcher's Broom on Tintageu was brilliant with scarlet berries. To any man even to our warders Amperdoo was a desolation akin to death.
He could buy 'em at so much a gross with a cash discount, and he did it before ever they signed on. He's got two of the warders and Mereer, the second mate, and he'd get the captain himself, if he thought him worth it." ""What are we to do, then?" I asked. ""What do you think?" said he. "We'll make the coats of some of these soldiers redder than ever the tailor did."
Hearing the tidings from one of his warders, Giannotto heaved a great sigh, and said: "Alas, fourteen years have I been a wanderer upon the face of the earth, looking for no other than this very event; and now, that my hopes of happiness may be for ever frustrate, it has come to pass only to find me in prison, whence I may never think to issue alive."
Dine with me at five, good youth, an' all me retinoo maids, warders, grooms, attendants shall be at thy service." "I'll be glad to come," said the boy, smiling at his odd host. "An' see thou hast hunger." "Good morning, Mr. ?" the boy hesitated. "Darrel Roderick Darrel " said the old man, "that's me name, sor, an' ye'll find me here at the Sign o' the Dial."
"This Welch hell hath broke loose." "And you are their beacon-fires? Then the whole land is upon us!" "Prate less," quoth Sexwolf; "those are the hills now held by the warders of Harold: our spies gave them notice, and the watch-fires prepared us ere the fiends came in sight, otherwise we had been lying here limbless or headless. Now, men, draw up, and march forth."
The warders on the towers hearkened to his speech, so that they drew him up by cords upon the wall. At Baldulph's tale the folk within the city despaired of succour, and knew not how to flee, nor where to escape. In their extremity the news was bruited amongst them that Cheldric had come to a haven in Scotland, with a fleet of five hundred galleys, and was speeding to York.
After an hour's inspection, I came to the conclusion that the lot of the prisoners was cast in pleasant places. The food was being prepared at the time three kinds of vegetables, with a liberal quantity of rice, much better than nine-tenths of the poor brutes lived on before they came to gaol. Besworded warders guarded the entrances to the various outbuildings.
"We can't well get that in through the warders, it would look suspicious, but I will get in some meat through them. We have got some of the last lot left, so we can do with very little bread." For the next two days they found plenty to occupy them, while their stock of bread was accumulating.
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