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I Am Shown Two Interesting Penitents

           

           Aftersomeconversationamongthesegentlemen,fromwhichImighthavesupposedthattherewasnothingintheworldtobelegitimatelytakenintoaccountbutthesupremecomfortofprisoners,atanyexpense,andnothingonthewideearthtobedoneoutsideprison-doors,webeganourinspection.Itbeingthenjustdinner-time,wewent,firstintothegreatkitchen,whereeveryprisoner’sdinnerwasincourseofbeingsetoutseparately(tobehandedtohiminhiscell),withtheregularityandprecisionofclock-work.Isaidaside,toTraddles,thatIwonderedwhetheritoccurredtoanybody,thattherewasastrikingcontrastbetweentheseplentifulrepastsofchoicequality,andthedinners,nottosayofpaupers,butofsoldiers,sailors,labourers,thegreatbulkofthehonest,workingcommunity;ofwhomnotonemaninfivehundredeverdinedhalfsowell.ButIlearnedthatthe‘system’requiredhighliving;and,inshort,todisposeofthesystem,onceforall,Ifoundthatonthatheadandonallothers,‘thesystem’putanendtoalldoubts,anddisposedofallanomalies.Nobodyappearedtohavetheleastideathattherewasanyothersystem,butTHEsystem,tobeconsidered.

           Asweweregoingthroughsomeofthemagnificentpassages,IinquiredofMr.

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