Yes--he felt it in him to be a martyr! They would hardly refuse him a pocket Homer in prison.
What, a month?
Three weeks, in actual practice.

Luckily he cared nothing at all about food--though he refused to be rationed by a despotic Government.

On a handful of dates and a bit of coarse bread he had passed many a day of hard work when he was excavating in the East.

One can always starve--for a purpose! The Squire conceived himself as out for Magna Charta--the root principles of British liberty.

As for those chattering fellows of the Labour Party, let them conquer England if they could.