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. What brings you here?” “I’m here to see my uncle. And yet I know not—for the object of his visit here to-night was to serve Jack, who, if your statement is correct, which I cannot however for a moment believe, does not deserve his assistance. He was the Napoleon of knavery, and established an uncontrolled empire over all the practitioners of crime. “Ever yours, “ANNABEL. “Girls of sixteen do not need their own laundry hampers. "How is the patient?" he asked. ‘Therefore she cannot be the daughter of Suzanne Valade. "England or France, London or Paris, it's all one to me, so I've you to command me. Mr. “I had no idea that it was so abominably late. “He naturally does not wish for connexions which are—I do not wish to hurt you feelings, Anna, but I must say it—not altogether desirable. “He is one of our guests—perhaps I should say boarders here, but he seldom returns before dinner-time.
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