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Page 375
... turnkey , a gnome in a steeple - crowned hat , protruded a blood - red hand backwards in the direction of the postern . " Seņor Caballero , " he croaked , " I pray you to consider this house your own . My servants are yours . " Within ...
... turnkey , a gnome in a steeple - crowned hat , protruded a blood - red hand backwards in the direction of the postern . " Seņor Caballero , " he croaked , " I pray you to consider this house your own . My servants are yours . " Within ...
Page 392
... turnkey at Newgate . It was when he welcomed me back from my examination before the Thames Court magistrate . The magistrate , a bad- tempered man , snuffy , with red eyes , and the air of being a piece of worn and dirty furniture of ...
... turnkey at Newgate . It was when he welcomed me back from my examination before the Thames Court magistrate . The magistrate , a bad- tempered man , snuffy , with red eyes , and the air of being a piece of worn and dirty furniture of ...
Page 393
... turnkey whispered suddenly into my ear : " Them's the condemned he's preaching at , them in the black pew . See Roguey Cullen wink at the woman prisoners up there in the gallery . Him with the red hair . . . . All swings to - morrow ...
... turnkey whispered suddenly into my ear : " Them's the condemned he's preaching at , them in the black pew . See Roguey Cullen wink at the woman prisoners up there in the gallery . Him with the red hair . . . . All swings to - morrow ...
Page 394
... turnkey , still with his hand on my sleeve , jerked me into my familiar cell . I hadn't thought to be glad to get back to that dim , frozen , damp - chilled little hole ; with its hateful stone walls , stone ceiling , stone floor ...
... turnkey , still with his hand on my sleeve , jerked me into my familiar cell . I hadn't thought to be glad to get back to that dim , frozen , damp - chilled little hole ; with its hateful stone walls , stone ceiling , stone floor ...
Page 396
... turnkey said ; " you'll swing right enough . " He slapped the great key on his flabby hand . ' You can tell that by the signs . You , being an Admiralty case , ought to have been in the Marshalsea . And you're ordered solitary cell ...
... turnkey said ; " you'll swing right enough . " He slapped the great key on his flabby hand . ' You can tell that by the signs . You , being an Admiralty case , ought to have been in the Marshalsea . And you're ordered solitary cell ...
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