“But then they would find that check endorsed in his bureau. Indeed I must. "Tom Sheppard never said a better thing than that—
ho! ho!"
"Jack," cried his mother, wringing her hands in distraction, "you'll break my
heart!"
"Poh! poh!" returned her son; "women don't so easily break their hearts. . She stood there limply and
did not act to resist him. But recently he had asked God to pile it all on him; and God had
added this, with a fresh portion for Ruth. "Jack," continued Thames, addressing Sheppard, who had only just recovered
from the blow, and regained his feet, "I don't ask how you came here, nor do I
blame your rashness in doing so. Each became frightfully aware of
the other as a plastic energetic body, of the strong muscles of neck against cheek,
of hands gripping shoulder-blade and waist. Let—it—fall. Did he act to you that day as if he knew what he was
doing?"
"Not all of the time. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the
ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom
Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;
—the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly
insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the
inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that
ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and,
whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow.
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