The street is broad, the shops are spacious, the noise of passing vehicles, the footsteps of a perpetual stream of people--all the busy sounds of traffic, resound in it from morn to midnight; but the streets around are mean and close; poverty and debauchery lie festering in the crowded alleys; want and misfortune are pent up in the narrow prison; an air of gloom and dreariness seems, in my eyes at least, to hang about the scene, and to impart to it a squalid and sickly hue.
'Many eyes, that have long since been closed in the grave, have looked round upon that scene lightly enough, when entering the gate of the old Marshalsea Prison for the first time; for despair seldom comes with the first severe shock of misfortune.
Nothing but the production of the afflicted Gabelle's letter from his prison of the Abbaye would have got him on so far.
You are consigned, Evremonde, to the prison of La Force."
"If you please, I am here to conduct you to
prison."
Just now I am ordered to take him to
prison. Get me a prisoner's robe from your Official Wardrobe."
Who am I that I should object to being in
prison, when so many of the royal personages and illustrious characters of history have been there before me?
And then--you'll see--I'll soon find a way to make the King let us all out of
prison."
Thus, then, on the 20th of August, 1672, as we have already stated in the beginning of this chapter, the whole town was crowding towards the Buytenhof, to witness the departure of Cornelius de Witt from
prison, as he was going to exile; and to see what traces the torture of the rack had left on the noble frame of the man who knew his Horace so well.
Take him, therefore, and throw him into
prison." The Marionette, on hearing this sentence passed upon him, was thoroughly stunned.
Nor would it have advantaged me any had they known the exact location of my
prison, for who could hope to penetrate to this buried sea in the face of the mighty navy of the First Born?
Hammers began to rattle on the walls; and every man strove to reach the
prison, and be among the foremost rank.
Some of my readers may have an interest in being informed whether or no any portions of the Marshalsea
Prison are yet standing.
"But since they served your eminence so well, why are they, my lord cardinal, in
prison?"
Other plates, closely fitted, covered the lenticular glasses, and the travelers, hermetically enclosed in their metal
prison, were plunged in profound darkness.
