All were dressed in white suits, and Charlie was struck with the pallor of their faces, and the listless air of most of them.

The gentleman to whom they had first been introduced made them acquainted with the others.
"How refreshingly healthy and well you look!" a young man of some six and twenty years old, named Johnson, said.

"I was something like that, when I first came out here, though you'd hardly think it now.

Eight years of stewing, in this horrible hole, takes the life and spirits out of anyone.
"However, there's one consolation.

After eight or ten years of quill driving in a stuffy room, one becomes a little more one's own master, and one's duties begin to be a little more varied and pleasant.