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‘Here we go again. "No prize shall indushe me to enter dat horrid plashe again. But when all was over, a sorrowful calm succeeded, and, if not free from grief, she was tranquil. "Here's a door," remarked Ireton, when he got to that nearest the leads, "which I could have sworn would have resisted anything. She could not make up her mind which was the finer, more elemental thing, which gave its values to the other. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:— "Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. The first of these, the Press Room, a dark close chamber, near Waterman's Hall, obtained its name from an immense wooden machine kept in it, with which such prisoners as refused to plead to their indictments were pressed to death—a species of inquisitorial torture not discontinued until so lately as the early part of the reign of George the Third, when it was abolished by an express statute. Her impressions of this cardinal ceremony were rich and confused, complicated by a quite transitory passion that awakened no reciprocal fire for a fat curly headed cousin in black velveteen and a lace collar, who assisted as a page. ‘Hilary, you must stop referring to mademoiselle as “she”. There were neither texts nor rubbish on the walls, but only a stirring version of Belshazzar’s feast, a steel engraving in the early Victorian manner that had some satisfactory blacks. And to think that man got it all out of the poorest little love-story for a respectable titled lady! Have you read of it?” “Never.
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