“There was an accident with a pistol in Miss Pellissier’s room,” he said. " "Wait a bit, massa," replied the grinning negro,—"lilly bit—see all right fust. ’ ‘That’s better. Her motherly features creased into anxious wrinkles. We think the whole thing is straight and noble at bottom, and it isn’t. Jack's friends were allowed to visit him,; but as he had openly avowed his intention of attempting an escape, their proceedings were narrowly watched. Yet he’s been here for six years, and he’s as much a fixture as that sham mahogany sideboard. A door led to the inner room; and it was evident from the peals of merriment, and other noises, that, ever and anon, resounded from within, that this chamber was occupied by the Marquis and his friends. What had shifted his casual interest was the visible prospect of a party of three who were coming down the packet gangplank. "It is with no small concern," writes an anonymous historian of Newgate, "that I am obliged to observe that the women in every ward of this prison are exceedingly worse than the worst of the men not only in respect to their mode of living, but more especially as to their conversation, which, to their great shame, is as profane and wicked as hell itself can possibly be.
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