There were dark rims under her eyes, soft now with unshed tears. That is I saw her. It is putting all my dreams out of joint. As she hoisted her skirts near her waist, she thought ruefully of the last time she had worn such an elaborate gown, sometime near 1910 when petticoats were still considered hip everyday garb. Let us have no more of this humbug. He stooped to recover it, and his face was hidden. Lucy had been ignoring her, not purposefully, but noticeably. 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. "As long as you please, Sir," answered the matron, dropping a curtsey.
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