" Broken pipes littered the floor, if that can be said to be littered, which, in the first instance, was a mass of squalor and filth. His heart was beating, but faintly and slowly, with ominous intermissions. "Insult you! not I;" returned Figg. As this gentleman was going away, he said to Jack in a jesting manner, 'that he should be glad to see him to-night at supper. ” Miss Ellicot swept aside her skirts from the vacant chair and welcomed the newcomer with one of her most engaging smiles. 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. ” They were eating quails when they returned to the topic of love. The action steadied him; and there was a phase of irony, too, that helped. In privacy he read and reread it a dozen times, and eventually destroyed it by fire. Women are made like the potter’s vessels —either for worship or contumely, and are withal fragile vessels. After him! A hundred pounds to the man who takes him. " With this, he appeared to pluck up his courage, and stepped forward more boldly. Why, Nab, you shake as if you'd got an ague?" he added, turning to the Jew, whose teeth chattered audibly.
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