The Manchester Rebels

Left alone, Atherton endeavoured to reconcile himself to his imprisonment, but with very indifferent success.

How he longed to join the party downstairs -- to go forth into the garden or the park -- to do anything, in short, rather than remain shut up in those gloomy rooms! But stay there he must! -- so he amused himself as well as he could by looking into the cupboards with which the rooms abounded.