'P'raps,' quoth the turnkey, 'she'll take a ackney coach.'
'Or p'raps,' said the turnkey, offering his suggestions from the the top of his well-worn wooden stool, as he might have offered them to a child for whose weakness he felt a compassion, 'p'raps she'll get her brother, or her sister, to come along with her.'
This turnkey had given him to understand that he was lodged, like some few others in the jail, apart from the mass of prisoners; because he was not supposed to be utterly depraved and irreclaimable, and had never occupied apartments in that mansion before.
In the space between, sat a turnkey reading a newspaper, and outside the further railing, Kit saw, with a palpitating heart, his mother with the baby in her arms; Barbara's mother with her never-failing umbrella; and poor little Jacob, staring in with all his might, as though he were looking for the bird, or the wild beast, and thought the men were mere accidents with whom the bars could have no possible concern.
"Why then," said the turnkey, grinning again, "he knows what Mr.
"Yah!" cried Wemmick, suddenly hitting out at the turnkey in a facetious way, "you're dumb as one of your own keys when you have to do with my principal, you know you are.
"True enough; he wanted to kill me!" returned the
turnkey.
'Having your likeness taken, sir,' replied the stout
turnkey.
'Steady,' said the
turnkey, still holding him down.
As sights of horror were not so usual to George as they were to the
turnkey, he instantly saw the great disorder which appeared in the face of Jones.
Saying these words he went out backwards, and the assistant
turnkey was going to follow him, and to lock the door of Cornelius's cell, when a white and trembling arm interposed between him and the heavy door.
As for the governor, the jailer did not even think of disturbing him; the
turnkeys and the sentinels had reported the occurrence to him, but what was the good of it?
Arriving at Newgate, where some of the ruined cells had been hastily fitted up for the safe keeping of rioters, he was warmly received by the
turnkeys, as an unusual and interesting case, which agreeably relieved their monotonous duties.
As Dinah crossed the prison court with the
turnkey, the solemn evening light seemed to make the walls higher than they were by day, and the sweet pale face in the cap was more than ever like a white flower on this background of gloom.
"But does not the resemblance you were speaking about just now strike the
turnkeys?"
