It is like stabbing me, but if I bleed, boy, it is a relief.

Transportation for twenty-one years, and to what a life of horror, misery, and despair! Companion to the greatest scoundrels and wretches that ever breathed; loathed and hated by them, because I was not what they, called their sort.

Then, when sent out for good behaviour as an assigned servant, hated and scorned and trampled upon by every honest man.

You have seen--you know.

The convict from the chain gang, a branded felon.