"I want to know what you've done with the rest of the notes—with the gold— and the papers you took away from my room!" rejoined Wild. Here the ribs of a thousand pounds beating against the Needles— those dangerous rocks, credulity here floated, to and fro, silks, stuffs, camlets, and velvet, without giving place to each other, according to their dignity; here rolled so many pipes of canary, whose bungholes lying open, were so damaged that the merchant may go hoop for his money," A less picturesque, but more truthful, and, therefore, more melancholy description of the same scene, is furnished by the shrewd and satirical Ned Ward, who informs us, in the "Delectable History of Whittington's College," that "When the prisoners are disposed to recreate themselves with walking, they go up into a spacious room, called the Stone Hall; where, when you see them taking a turn together, it would puzzle one to know which is the gentleman, which the mechanic, and which the beggar, for they are all suited in the same garb of squalid poverty, making a spectacle of more pity than executions; only to be out at the elbows is in fashion here, and a great indecorum not to be threadbare. The girl who had just left the room was as great a mystery to him now as on the afternoon when he had met her in Piccadilly and taken her to tea. Their expression was so amiable, that it would have redeemed a countenance a thousand times plainer than hers. And now, come and sit by me, my dear, and let's have a little quiet chat together. Sebastian howled with laughter, doubling over. "They shall not harm you, my love!" she exclaimed. ” Anna was a little puzzled, but she only laughed. “For men have reason, women rhyme A man scores always, all the time. But I will not be engaged as ‘Alcide’ or advertised under that name.
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