We have not a penny too much for that, and must resolve to eschew all luxuries except tobacco, and perhaps a bottle of wine on Sundays." "Our windows, as you observe, are very strongly barred.

They look westward, but that range of buildings opposite prevents our getting a view of the sea.

One thing is evident, at once: that it is no manner of use for us to think of cutting through those bars, or dislodging them; for we should only, on lowering ourselves, be in the courtyard, and no nearer escape than we were before we began the job.

It is a good thing to get at least one point off our mind.
"Now, Dick, before we go further, let us make an agreement that we will always talk in French.

I know enough of it to be able to assist you, and it will be an amusement, as well as a help, to accustom ourselves to talk in it." "All right," Ryan said, resignedly; "but I bargain that, for an hour a day, we drop it altogether.