He used to call it his fire-escape—ha! ha! I've often used the ladder for my own convenience, but I never expected to turn it to such good account. Perhaps, after all, the others were right. "I don't know his name. "As long as I live, I'll never forget that dress of hers," Prudence declared. " "Keep in your own room, at all events," rejoined Kneebone. “I always shall. 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. Beauty has bloomed and faded. Profligate women are never reclaimed. The amazing tonic of the thought! From time to time she laid her hand upon Spurlock's forehead: it was still cold. Tell her, that more than once, when about to commit some desperate offence, I have been restrained by her gentle image.
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