All day and all night doors were clapping to and fro; and you heard loud voices, oaths, footsteps, and laughter.

Next door to our room was one where a man sold gin, under the name of _tape_; and here, from morning till night, the people kept up a horrible revelry;--and sang--sad songs some of them: but my dear little girl was, thank God! unable to understand the most part of their ribaldry.

She never used to go out till nightfall; and all day she sat working at a little store of caps and dresses for the expected stranger--and not, she says to this day, unhappy.

But the confinement sickened her, who had been used to happy country air, and she grew daily paler and paler.
The Fives Court was opposite our window; and here I used, very unwillingly at first, but afterwards, I do confess, with much eagerness, to take a couple of hours' daily sport.

Ah! it was a strange place.
There was an aristocracy there as elsewhere,--amongst other gents, a son of my Lord Deuce-ace; and many of the men in the prison were as eager to walk with him, and talked of his family as knowingly, as if they were Bond Street bucks.