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. It appeared he had already ordered dinner and wine, and the whiskered waiter waved in his subordinate with the soup forthwith. " "He shall go through the whole course," replied Blueskin, with a ferocious grin, "unless he comes down to the last grig. They did not speak until he had driven past town limits and were on the highway. He stood up and she ushered him out of the small room. ToC Thames Darrell's arm having been submitted to the scrutiny of Mrs. CHAPTER I. Even the stars were strangers. "I'll gibbet the rascal. At the same moment a martial flourish, proceeding from cow's horns, tin canisters filled with stones, bladders and cat-gut, with other sprightly, instruments, was struck up, and, enlivened by this harmonious accompaniment, the troop reached its destination in the best possible spirits for an encounter. " So saying, he advanced towards the window, threw open the sash, and called out in the voice of Thames Darrell, "Who's there?" He was answered by a shot from a pistol. ‘But you know.
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