"'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. 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. I figured it would hurt your feelings if you knew I still talked to him, so I kept my mouth shut. The aspect of the place, so far as he could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later. Miss Stanley, it was manifest, had given him Ann Veronica’s address. Though they do, in secret, I believe. And next morning she attired herself with especial care and neatness, found his address in the Directory at a post-office, and went to him.
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