They kick me in the face, beat me with the baton, whip me in me balls, beat me with a cat o’ nine like them name buckra massa […]

Miss Vernon, seating herself majestically in a huge elbow-chair in the library, like a judge about to hear a cause of importance, signed to me to take a chair opposite to her ….

The road bends to the right.

The employment of fiz-gigs – men engaged by detectives to tempt discharged prisoners to commit specified […] The report of Mr. Francis Longmore and his colleagues may indeed have tended to diminish fiz-gigging […]