 If they would only treat him kindly, he would be as a lamb. But within the last few weeks he had escaped with three others, and had been brought back almost starved to death. The. record of his prison life was frightful. He had been always escaping, always...  Australia and New Zealand - Pagina 18door Anthony Trollope - 1873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Anthony Trollope - 1874 - 214 pagina’s
...also 89 lunatics, of whom only four were still under sentence. With 506 men to be looked after, 97 officers and constables to look after them, and with...of a cage. Is that unnatural ; — is that a great crime?" The man's first offence, that of mutiny, is not one at which the mind revolts. I did feel for... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1876 - 386 pagina’s
...he told us through the misery of prison life. But he said that he was broken at last. If they \yould only treat him kindly, he would be as a lamb. But...some mercy in his old age. " I have tried to escape j — always to escape," he said, — " as a bird does out of a cage. Is that unnatural ; — is that... | |
 | Babette Smith - 2008 - 412 pagina’s
...always escaping, always rebelling, always fighting against authority — and always being flogged — a whole life of torment such as this; forty-two years...softly, arguing his case well, and pleading while tears ran down his face for some kindness, for some mercy in his old age. "I have tried to escape —... | |
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