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. "But, if I should not return, take this purse to Edgeworth Bess. The man was thick set, with a bright roving eye. ‘You think my father would not have married Suzanne if he had known? Me, I do not agree. ‘I knew you would be furious. But he would die if he continued in this course. I have suffered—I have sinned—I have repented. Mind you don't stir till supper's over. " "Infernally provoking!" echoed Langley. . His bravado waxed and he asked her to what would be her first date in nearly twenty years. Is there anything you'd like?" "Books.
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