This made just the difference required, and with a tremendous effort he got out of his prison-house in the very nick of time.

Wherever he went prison doors were unlocked as if he possessed a magic key; and by his life and books he did more to help prisoners than any other man.

There is laughter yonder in the fields, and the scent of wild flowers floats in to us at times when we are weary, and the whispering trees sway their branches over the prison-wall, and their fruit is good to look on, and they hang within reachah, we might reach them very easily!

" The quest of the candle would take the guide to the closet in the guard-room, and, risking little to learn much, Dick struck a match and peered into the stuffy little room, more like a corn-crib than a prison-cell.

After the first year of the war, however, stories of ill-treatment of prisoners in German prison camps began to be told, and before long there were many well-authenticated cases of the kind.

" And the weary soul folded its tired wings, all wounded with vain beatings against the prison bars of circumstance, and was hushed into a great stillness against the heart of its Father.

The only trouble I have had has been with desperadoes and old offenders, men who have once tasted prison-life and have a horror of returning to captivity.

The rage of the people was increased by tales of horror and aggression that occasionally reached their ears from these prison ships.

No sooner was Facundo set at liberty, than he snatched the bolt of the prison-gate, from the very hand which had just withdrawn it to set him free, crushed the Spaniard's skull with the heavy iron, and swung it right and left, until, according to his own statement, made at a later date, no less than fourteen corpses were stiffening on the ground.

There are green fields yonder, but our allotted place is here in the prison-yard.

I should not be surprised to learn that he hates capital punishment and is a strong advocate of gentle methods in prison discipline.

Would they fire their prison rooms, Or how, these dames of Troy?'Fore God, the dooms Are known, and now they burn themselves and die Rather than sail with us!

But this is forbidden fruit, my lady; and it is not included in our wholesome prison-fare.

I cannot say what I might of the child of the same parents, but had Giuseppe seen this package by any accident, it might have brought thee into great trouble!" "Nay, I fear not thy brother, nor any else," said the daughter of the prison-keeper, with the firmness of innocence; "he could do me no harm for dealing kindly by a relative.

She had dropped into the orderly's chair, and now bowed her head upon the prison doctor's ledger, which lay open on the table before it.

Most of them are regular customers at the prisonsuch is the idiotic state of the lawwho come into the reception-room like travellers entering a familiar hostelry, address the prison officers by name and demand the usual privileges and extra comfortsthe 'drunks,' for instance, generally ask for a dose of bromide to steady their nerves and a light in the cell to keep away the horrors.

Faulty prison systems, discords between labor and capital, discrepancies between law and justice, are some of the themes he chooses to dramatize.

When, after a circuitous walk of half an hour, he reached the cabin of Blake, the colored agent of Mrs. Gannat, he found a note from his patroness warning him that the prison authorities had become alert.

What was then witnessed of the sad and neglected condition of these women and children sank deeply into the heart of the visitors, and Mrs. Fry formed the resolution to devote herself, as soon as circumstances permitted, to the work of prison reform, and improvement of the condition of female prisoners.

X. PRISON WORK.

All this was, of course, against the prison rules.

The charge against him on the present occasion was attempting to murder or do grievous bodily harm to a prison warder.

I should very soon have died on the prison allowance.

I knew, of course, by what we had overheard said by the prison-guards, that the Governor-General was extremely anxious to recapture the girl with whom, I frankly admit, I had now so utterly fallen in love.

Bernardine and the prison scenes are retained.