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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 realize I can’t see my mom or brother again. Bring the light this way—quick! I cannot decipher the signature. The gate was opened; the coffin brought into the churchyard; and Jack, whose eyes were filled with tears, saw Mr. ’ ‘Wait!’ Leaning forward, Hilary tapped on the panel. ’ ‘Ah, but I have a special reason for doing so this time. And then amusement crept into Alderley’s chest and he let his pistol hand fall. Acquainted with every part of the jail, Jack well knew that his only chance of effecting an escape must be by the roof. "It's more than I am," muttered Thames. However this may be, such was the ill report of the place that few passed along the Old Bailey without bestowing a glance of fearful curiosity at its dingy walls, and wondering what was going on inside them; while fewer still, of those who paused at the door, read, without some internal trepidation, the formidable name—inscribed in large letters on its bright brass-plate—of JONATHAN WILD.
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