" "At any rate, I won, for he went away. One’s sense of proportion, battered out of all shape in the daily life of cities, reasserts itself. ’ ‘Parbleu, it is I who am the idiot?’ she scolded furiously, removing one hand and digging it into her sleeve. I’m not that sort I quite agree. Even now she could trace the outline of his shape behind the left-hand curtain. . "Arundel Stairs," replied Wood, "the nearest point to Wych Street. " "Stop!" cried Jonathan, who did not care to push matters too far, "let me have a word with you, Mr. "Your uncle, Sir Rowland?" "It is no idle boasting," replied the other. " "Lord bless us!" ejaculated Wood, "how shocking! No, I did not know that. ” “Cooped up!” he cried. His face, as he looked down where his hand sought for a weapon concealed in her petticoat, was so close that she could see only the line of his firm jaw, the drag of his powdered hair that drew it into the military pigtail, and the black ribbon that adorned it. " "Your's will be nearer the truth, and have a deeper moral, Mr. 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.
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