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. ’ Melusine put her arm through his in a friendly way and moved with him outside to stand on the porch, leaning into him in a confidential way. I don’t defend it. Lucy dug out an old light gray cotton miniskirt that had shrunk on Shari in the wash. Never had he corrected her with hand or whip, the ring in his voice had always been sufficient to cower her. But on arriving in the tattered saloon where he and Melusine had hidden, a shock awaited Gerald. The library was on the ground floor, Melusine recalled from the previous visit, for she had searched through a desk in a room filled with bookshelves of leatherbound volumes. I should require you to accept no employment whatever upon the stage, and to remain out of England. “It is part of the irony of life,” he said. Since morning he had become fanatical; the atoms of common sense no longer functioned in the accustomed groove. ” Lucy’s eyes smiled and a weary closed lipped smile arose on her face. Part 4 But presently, as she sat on the one antimacassared red silk chair and surveyed her hold-all and bag in that tidy, rather vacant, and dehumanized apartment, with its empty wardrobe and desert toilet-table and pictureless walls and stereotyped furnishings, a sudden blankness came upon her as though she didn’t matter, and had been thrust away into this impersonal corner, she and her gear.
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