He rapped three times on the door and as the jailer opened it he turned again and said: "You will hear from me shortly, when I have laid your case before General Serano.
Mr. Wyman shuddered when he thought of the scenes of horror the old jailermight have witnessed.
The old jailerevidently knew of the existence of the secret passage, but his mind was so far gone that the consul was hopeful that General Serano's examination might fail.
But the jailer was cruel, and the under-jailer very abusive both to me and to Friends that came to see me; for he would beat with a great cudgel Friends who did but come to the window to look in upon me.
So the debtors and prisoners gathered in the yard, and we went down, and had a very precious meeting, the jailer not meddling.
They went and the jailer answered that he could not give a copy of it, for another had been fined for so doing; but he gave them liberty to read it over.
Wherefore the jailer was commanded to keep me in safe custody until I should be released by order of the King and Parliament.
Another time we asked the jailer what doings there were at the sessions; and he said, "Small matters; only about thirty for bastardy.
The testimony of the Scarborough jailer is as true as it is unstudied--"as stiff as a tree and as pure as a bell.
When I was brought in the upper jailer took me up into a great chamber, and told me I should have what I would in that room.
In the afternoon I was brought up again, and put among the thieves some time, where I stood with my hat on till the jailer took it off.
By this time the general quarter-sessions drew nigh; and the jailer still carrying himself basely and wickedly towards us, we drew up our suffering case, and sent it to the sessions at Bodmin.
Colonel Bennet, a Baptist teacher, having purchased the jail and lands belonging to the castle, had placed this head-jailer there.
But this jailer was very bad himself; I often admonished him to sobriety; but he abused people that came to visit us.
This jailer might have been rich--if he had carried himself civilly; but he sought his own ruin, which soon after came upon him.
As I passed through Colchester, I went to visit James Parnell in prison; but the jailer would hardly let us come in or stay with him.
The head jailer replied, "Why, I should not like to have them roasted alive.
But he too was removed, and we had a jailer of a very harsh and distant manner, wholly devoid of emotion, though not intrinsically bad.
I felt ashamed of this unworthy fear, and though just on the point of crying out to the jailer to let me out, I restrained myself, reflecting that there might be as little pleasure in being strangled as in being burnt.
One day the jailer permitted him to enter my prison, when he instantly ran to embrace my knees, actually uttering a cry of joy.
The jailer never came near me, except to conduct me before the special commission, that terrible ordeal for what are termed crimes of state.
The jailer of the Piombi delivered to the new governor the money belonging to me which he had in his hands.
Probably the permission will not be granted; there will be no means of escape; if the jailer should not humanely take the responsibility upon himself, we shall be suffocated in our dungeons!
A thought has just struck me, my friend, which I never had before; it is, that a jailer may be made of very congenial clay.
One morning, however, the jailer made his appearance, with an order to change my prison.
In half an hour I caught the sound of locks and keys; the door opened, and the head-jailer handed me a jug of water.
First came Martin Pok, the jailer at Fogara, with the humble request that he should be made captain of this stronghold instead of the foreign incumbent who had fled with Simon Kemeny.
Well, then we will not gratify the shouting mob by punishing them with imprisonment, but cause the jailer to administer a sound cudgeling to each one of them, and then let the fellows go again.
The jailer entered to bring me my food; we were quite alone, and they had taken off my chains, for I had been harmless and gentle for some months past.
So calling for lights, the jailer rushed in, and trembling with fear, fell down before Paul and Silas.
After beating them severely, they threw them in prison and ordered the jailer to be sure to keep them safely.
So the jailer told Paul, "The police have brought an order to have you released; now you may come out and go in peace.
Then the jailer took them at that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and he and all his family were at once baptized.
When the jailer suddenly awoke and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had escaped.
Between these two assizes," he says, "I had by my jailer some liberty granted me more than at the first.
On our arrival the jailer who answered the door, instead of admitting us, came out and told us to stay until he called us.
Crito made a sign to the servant, who was standing by; and he went out, and having been absent for some time, returned with the jailer carrying the cup of poison.
Nor among the friends of Socrates must the jailer be forgotten, who seems to have been introduced by Plato in order to show the impression made by the extraordinary man on the common.
When your jailer comes with your meal he will drop his keys.
I required it to withstand the scrutiny of the jailer when I presented my pass.
I had marked the way we came, and was thus able to go forth without hesitation, till we reached the door where the jailer was stationed.
I hoped by bribing our jailer to induce him to help us to escape, or, at all events, to send off a letter, which might be transmitted to Sir Thomas Gresham.
The sub-warden having thus, as he said, examined his prisoners, summoned the jailer to conduct them to the apartments he indicated.
At length at the usual hour the jailer made his appearance with our provisions, which were, as he had promised, far better than the usual prison fare.
Our only hopes lay in the assistance the jailer might afford us.
The jailer looked from me to the pretended Father Peter.
At length thejailer unlocked a door at the end of a long passage, and, pointing to the inside of the room, told them they might walk in.
While the jailer was still speaking, the sound of musketry was heard, and shouts and cries proceeding from our side of the town.
The next morning the jailer again made his appearance, with a basket, in addition to the usual prison fare, containing some white bread and pastry, and several other articles of food.
The jailer on this called one of the warders, and directed him to lead me to the English minister's cell, and on no account to interrupt us.
The two attendants, after a little whispering, came out into the passage, stretching themselves as if glad of the temporary relief, and motioned the visitors to follow the jailer into the cell.
His haggard face was still thrust forward, his under-jaw hanging down, and his eyes staring out before him, when thejailer put his hand upon his arm, and beckoned him away.
The jailer took the disengaged hand of Oliver; and, whispering him not to be alarmed, looked on without speaking.
At this point, the Dodger, with a show of being very particular with a view to proceedings to be had thereafter, desired the jailer to communicate 'the names of them two files as was on the bench.
I was after this left alone for the greater part of the day; and towards evening the jailer brought me some more food.
Though I was still somewhat weak, as soon as thejailer had gone his last round I rose from my couch, and managed to break off a piece of iron, as the doctor had advised.
Replace it at daylight; and if you have not succeeded, go to work again directly the jailer has left you at night.
We were still conversing when we heard the jailer turn the key in the lock.
My wound, too, did not heal; and at last I tried to persuade the jailer to take a message to the governor, requesting that I might be attended by a surgeon.
After we had had a little more conversation the jailer appeared, and inquired whether the doctor was ready to go.
So sound were my slumbers, I did not awake till I found the jailer leaning over me, and shaking me by the shoulders.
Saying this, the doctor walked out, and the jailer closed the door behind him.
This information was not very consolatory; it made me doubly anxious to get well, that I might try to effect my escape, so I again pressed the jailer to obtain the favour I asked.
When the jailer appeared, he placed a small basket of provisions, in addition to the usual prison fare, on my table.
Without looking to see whether the jailer had gone away, he approached me, and in a rough voice told me to show him my wound.
I had difficulty in restraining myself from jumping up and shaking him by the hand; but I had sense enough to wait till the jailer had closed the door and retired.
Only the lantern of the jailerlighted the sleeping halls as Nicole, with a cry, flew to her lover's arms.
With a crash the gates were flung open, and, flanked by two mastiffs, holding in his hand the fatal roll, the jailer suddenly confronted every eye.
What had become of the jailer and the guards, Theseus never knew.
When, ten minutes later, the same jailer peered in through the grating, the prisoner, stretched upon his cot, was as sound asleep as a new born babe.
I said a few motherly words to him and presently proposed to speak to the prisoners, to which the jailer gladly assented.
If the jailer still persisted, she played her last card and took the trick.
At one of the meetings of this congress, a jailer of the old school spoke in defence of the system of flogging refractory prisoners, and described in brutal fashion a brutal incident.
Henry Howard had but to wish, and thejailer was ready to furnish him everything.
The jailerextinguished the light and left the cell.
The rector was in the wagon with the jailer and the gendarme, and I rode beside them.
Everything was arranged and thejailer was ready to help.
A key grated in the cell door and the jailer entered, carrying a tray of food.
Accordingly he mapped out a plan, which he decided to put into execution when thejailer brought his evening meal.
But the jailerwas not suspected, and he and Val kept their own counsel.
They tread the gloomy corridor; they arrive at the door where the jailer has placed the fatal mark, now to be erased, for the prisoner within is to be reprieved a day.
The jailer paused, and the diamond laughed in his dazzled eyes.
The death of the jailer opens the cell of the captive.
A man is surely not united to a jailer because he is bound to him by an iron chain which his jailer has forged for his safe keeping.
It was not pleasant to be tied with the cruel ropes, and he felt that in time he could penetrate the mystery of how the room opened, even if he did not see his jailerenter and leave.
He was too weak, and his jailer seemed a powerful fellow.
In a strange state of mingled hope and fear I followed the jailer along the corridor, and across a paved courtyard into a low hall, where basins and other requisites for a prison toilet were arranged around the walls.
The jailer having formally listened to the document, and replied by reading aloud another, delivered me over to the officer, who desired me to follow him.
Suddenly I heard the sound of footsteps in the corridor; my door was opened, and the jailer entered, followed by a man carrying my breakfast.
While thoughts like these filled my mind, and in the excitement of awakened indignation I trod my little cell backwards and forwards, the jailer entered, and having locked the door behind him, approached me.
The jailer entered, and informed them it was time that she should depart; and again sinking her head upon his breast, she wept "goodnight.
