"Finding myself freed from the staple, I dragged myself up stairs as well as a man loaded with shackles, and emaciated with fasting, might; and after much groping about, I was at length directed, by the sound of a jolly roundelay, to the apartment where the worthy Sacristan, an it so please ye, was holding a devil's mass with a huge beetle-browed, broad-shouldered brother of the grey-frock and cowl, who looked much more like a thief than a clergyman.
- Amikor megszabadultam a vaskapocstól, üggyel-bajjal felvánszorogtam a lépcsőn, ami persze nehezére esett egy bilincsbe vert embernek, aki három napig jóformán semmit sem evett. Hosszas tapogatózás után vidám nótaszó ütötte meg fülemet.