In prison and out. By Hesba Stretton1880 |
Términos y frases comunes
afore agen answered Euclid asked beggin begging bitter called Captain Upjohn Cleopatra coffin cresses cried Bess dark David Fell Davy dear door dread Dudley Euclid and Bess Euclid and Victoria eyes face father Fell's felt folks gaol for three gaol-bird garret gazing girl gone hand head heard heart HESBA STRETTON honest hour hunger John Dudley keep knew learned light Linnett little Bess live London Bridge looking magistrate minutes miserable morning mother neighbours never night nothin old Euclid once parish passed pawnbroker police policeman poor prison Queen Victoria quiet ring seemed shillings sight silent small back room sobbed sorrow staircase stood street take a penny tears tell there's thief thieves thought three months turned utter voice water-cresses whilst woman words workhouse worse
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Página 195 - And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, , Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Página 195 - And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. 34. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Página 153 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong to thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Página 79 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes ; but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Página 196 - And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds : but this man hath done nothing amiss. 42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Página 50 - ill become o' Bess if Davy goes wrong ? He'd have kep' her up, if he'd been a good man. Oh, Lord ! he'd have made a good man, only for this ! And now he's in gaol ! " Bess was all that was left to her, and she could scarcely bear to let her go out of her sight. Blackett, who swore and raged at every one else, was beginning to speak kindly to Bess, and this filled the heart of the poor dying mother with unutterable terror. She...
Página 22 - Bess, crept homeward after her sorrowful visit to the pawnbroker, they saw an old man, one of their neighbours, making his way with a shambling and limping tread along the uneven pavement before them. The lamps were lit down the narrow and dirty street, and the light fell on the dingy figure of the old man as he passed under them, with his stooping shoulders and his long ragged locks of grey hair falling below his battered and broken hat, round which still clung a little band of black material that...
Página 2 - ... and noticed him; such a glance as he never met amidst the crowds who jostled one another in the thoroughfares he was accustomed to. This observation made him feel shy, and more averse than ever to begin his unwelcome task. It was past noonday before he could bring himself to stop a kindly looking lady who had looked pleasantly on him, and to beg from her help for his mother. His first appeal was successful, and gave him fresh courage to try again. The kind-hearted woman had helped him to take...
Página 17 - We're coming, mother," cried Bess; "it's only Roger. You go back, and let him come into our room for a bit, for company. You come with me, Roger, and talk a bit to mother: she's frettin' after Davy so! You ask her about the parson's garden, and the place where she used to live, and anything you can think of, for a bit, till Davy comes.
Página 30 - repeated Victoria. " I'd be right glad, if she'll come." Many a time had Victoria glanced longingly into Mrs. Fell's room, as she passed the door, and wished she would call out and invite her in. But Mrs. Fell had felt herself in a superior position to Euclid — a laundress being surely of a higher social standing than a water-cress seller, to say nothing of living on the ground-floor instead of the attic — and she had taken but little notice of Euclid's girl amid the constantly changing lodgers...