Only old librarians and Shirley Temples say that. 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. Then he lifted the black cloak-like garment from the floor. Still he had a decent look, and decidedly the air of one well-to-do in the world. " "Do you want me to tell her that I am grateful?" "Well, aren't you?" "I don't know; I really don't know. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent. The sing-song girl, seeing Ruth, extended her hands and began to chatter rapidly. For a few minutes, she appeared scarcely sensible of his presence. You don’t know. 1. With nobody who cares … the both of us!" He was real in this moment. .
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