The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a
large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly
dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal
lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and
tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and
female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in
drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. ”
“It scarcely gives me a chance,” Mr. ”
“We do. . She had looked up from her seat at the small round table in the centre of the
parlour which, together with the wooden armchairs beside the small fireplace,
and a sideboard next the single casement, was all the furniture the place
afforded. “You did
not wish to see him particularly this evening, then?”
Anna hesitated. The Bitchster strikes again. A light was visible in the garret,
feebly struggling through the damp atmosphere, for the night was raw and
overcast. She was not obliged to go to the Tredgold College, because as yet the College
had not settled down for the session. I've delivered Jack Sheppard from many an
assault. "At my first being acquainted
with the place," says this writer, in the 'Miseries of a Prison,' "the prisoners,
methought, walking up and down the Stone Hall, looked like so many wrecks
upon the sea.
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