The officers attended, two with black eyes apiece, and one with his jaw bound up, and two sound teeth in his pocket, which had been driven from their sockets by the prisoner in his desperate attempt to escape.

Their evidence hurt the prisoner, and the magistrate refused bail.
The Reverend Robert Penfold was committed to prison, to be tried at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of felony.
Wardlaw senior returned home, and told Wardlaw junior, who said not a word.

He soon received a letter from Robert Penfold, which agitated him greatly, and he promised to go to the prison and see him.
But he never went.
He was very miserable, a prey to an inward struggle.

He dared not offend his father on the eve of being made partner.

Yet his heart bled for Robert Penfold.
He did what might perhaps have been expected from that pale eye and receding chin--he temporized.