CHAP. VIII.
The same subject continued.
The next morning I communicated to my wife and children the scheme I had planned of reforming the prisoners, which they received with universal disapprobation, alledging the impossibility and impropriety of it; adding, that my endeavours would no way contribute to their amendment, but might probably disgrace my calling.
"Excuse me," returned I, "these people, however fallen, are still men, and that is a very good title to my affections. Good council rejected returns to enrich"the
