Life was very terrible to the prince, now, but he began to see that he had brought all his sorrow on himself, and he tried to bear it patiently. The worst to bear was the cruelty of the keeper. At last, one night, this keeper was in great danger; a tiger got loose, and attacked him. "Good enough! Let him die!" thought Prince Cherry. But when he saw how helpless the keeper was, he repented, and sprang to help. He killed the tiger and saved the keeper's life.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
He purchased a new fustian coat and a pair of pumps, in which to be hanged, and he hired five poor men at ten shillings the day, that his death might not go unmourned. Above all, he was distinguished in prison. A crowd thronged his cell to identify him, and one there was who offered to bet the keeper half a guinea that the prisoner was not Turpin; whereupon Turpin whispered the keeper, `Lay him the wager, you fool, and I will go you halves.' Surely this impudent indifference might have kept green the memory of the man who never rode to York!英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
That therefore, for the two keepers employed to keep up the lights, all provisions for the winter were necessarily carried to them in autumn, as they could never be visited again till the return of the milder season. That on the first practicable day in the spring a boat put off to them with fresh supplies. The boatmen met at the door one of the keepers and accosted him with a How goes it friend? Very well. How is your companion? I do not know. Don't know? Is not he here?英文原著 · 《AUTOBIOGRAPHY》
The keeper sat on a great cedar block outside the gate. Against the wall behind him leaned a javelin. A dog squatted on the block by his side. "The peace of Jehovah be with you," said Joseph, at last confronting the keeper. "What you give, may you find again; and, when found, be it many times multiplied to you and yours," returned the watchman, gravely, though without moving. "I am a Bethlehemite," said Joseph, in his most deliberate way. Is there not room for--"
"There is not."
"You may have heard of me--Joseph of Nazareth. This is the house of my fathers.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
The Doctor then. Oh, he has not come. This monstrosity irritated Alfred: "Well, then," said he, "whoever it is that rules this den of thieves, when those two are out of it."
"I rule in Mr. Baker's absence," said the head keeper, "and I'll teach you manners, you young blackguard. Handcuff him."
In five minutes Alfred was handcuffed and flung into a padded room. "Stay there till you know how to speak to your betters," said the head keeper. Alfred walked up and down grinding his teeth with rage for five long hours. Just before dinner Brown came and took him into a parlour, where Mrs.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
Wolf ordered his men to break in the door. After some little delay, one of the keepers applied a chisel, while a policeman held his truncheon ready to defend the operator. The lock gave way. But the door could not open for furniture. After some further delay they took it off its hinges, and the room stood revealed. To their surprise no rush was made at them. The maniac was not even in sight. "He is down upon his luck," whispered one of the new keepers; "we shall find him crouched somewhere." They looked under the bed.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》