One Glorious Ambition by Jane Kirkpatrick

Author:Jane Kirkpatrick [Kirkpatrick, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-72943-9
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2013-04-01T11:00:00+00:00

She began teaching the Sunday school classes weekly, along with an additional class at the debtors’ jail, where she saw for herself a low fire heating the cavernous room and the smaller cells as well. The greatly impaired prisoners had been removed, and when she asked to see where they were, she was shown to another room, where a flame rose. It brought scant warmth, but at least the freeze of the stone walls had lessened.

Still, the moans of despair and minds in peril overpowered the lingering scent of pain and degradation. It seemed to Dorothea that the people housed here needed to be in a hospital or they would soon affect the healthier cellmates. This mixing of prisoners simply was not wise. Prisoners with less reason could easily become victims of their stronger cellmates, or they might harm the other prisoners as their thoughts grew beyond spats to confused attacks.

“Required to pay my brother-in-law to sit in here and watch ’em when the fire’s going,” the jailer growled. Jailers were paid by the local sheriffs, and the cost of any care came from their profits, if there were any. “Hope you’re happy now,” he said.

“My happiness is much improved, thank you. It’s especially good to see the floors have been washed. Thank you for that as well.”

“Brother-in-law has to keep busy.”

“And he’s chosen wisely. You may find it easier to manage the prisoner demands by separating the feeble-minded from the others.”

“I wouldn’t push, miss, if I was you. Take what you got and leave us be.”

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