Daunton

"Daunton," said I, at length, "you have failed: in endeavouring to make

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

Daunton argues that it was in this atmosphere of constant surveillance that the concept of the intellectual was made.

A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief 2010

There's a brilliant essay by the historian Robert Daunton called ‘A Police Inspector Sorts His Files 'which describes the working practices of one police agent in Paris during the Revolution whose job it was to watch a number of intellectuals.

A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief 2010

Mother! the thought brought with it the black train of ideas of which Daunton was the demoniac leader.

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

Nor did Daunton succeed in his plans of extorting money -- but his scheme was infinitely more deep and more hellish.

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

The first symptoms of emotion that I could perceive took place when I described the lash descending upon the shrinking shoulders of Daunton.

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

The day _after_, when I was enjoying my arrest in the dignified idleness of a snooze in a pea-jacket, on one of the lockers, the loblolly-boy came to me, saying that Daunton was much worse, and that he humbly and earnestly requested to see me.

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

The words that Daunton had spoken at the gangway, and the strange interest that I had taken in his behalf, gave rise to suspicions that I felt to be degrading.

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

You cannot think this Daunton a moral character -- you cannot think him honest.

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

"The fruits of which affection Daunton is, no doubt, now reaping."

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820