But Cyrus Harding considered it of importance that no one should injure his health, for he had need of all his hands, and his advice was followed.
But it must be said, that the one who was most impatient of this imprisonment, after Pencroft perhaps, was Top.

The faithful dog found Granite House very narrow.

He ran backwards and forwards from one room to another, showing in his way how weary he was of being shut up.

Harding often remarked that when he approached the dark well which communicated with the sea, and of which the orifice opened at the back of the storeroom, Top uttered singular growlings.

He ran round and round this hole, which had been covered with a wooden lid.