I deemed it more
prudent to send him to the Dark House than to bring him here, in case of any
search after him by his adoptive father—the carpenter Wood. Amidst it all,
however, there were several light-hearted and laughing groups walking from cell
to cell to whom all this misery appeared matter of amusement. Jack, who had something of the Spartan in his
composition, endured his martyrdom without flinching; and carried his stoical
indifference so far, as even to make a mocking grimace in Sharples's face, while
that amiable functionary thrust Thames into the recess beside him. The man’s hand flashed
out, but immediately afterwards an oath and a cry of pain broke from his lips. Though the starling
was more than two feet above the level of the water, he alighted with his little
charge—which he had never for an instant quitted—in safety upon it.
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