A VISIT TO A PRISON—SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.
“Why, Mr. Quirp, have you been in a prison?” inquired Lady Marvlynn.
“I am sorry to say I have been in a good many, my dear madam,” returned the lawyer. “Not as an inmate—don’t imagine that.”
Upon this the company burst out into a loud laugh.
“No, only as a visitor,” added Quirp. “That is all, and from what I have seen of the internal accommodation of those places I have no desire to dwell therein even for the space of, say, four and twenty hours.”
“You are afraid the air would not agree with you?”
“Exactly so. I am quite sure that neither the air, the food, nor the sleeping accommodation would suit me. But I will give you an account of what I saw.
No. 77.
THE “HARVEST HOME” GAMES AT FARMER ASHBROOK’S.