A drunken idea, Ah Cum had called it. “Oh. “It is not an easy matter,” he said, “for me to offer you an altogether adequate explanation. Certainly not a gentlewoman. “So Cheveney was her friend, you think, eh?” he remarked. Then Ramage appeared with effusion, and ushered her into his inner apartment. '—'What is it, Mint?' asked all three. Martin’s eyes seemed about to pop out of his head. " "You might have added 'then'," said Miss Spurlock, drily. Roused by Ben's warning, the carpenter looked up and could just perceive the dusky outline of the bridge looming through the darkness, and rendered indistinctly visible by the many lights that twinkled from the windows of the lofty houses. I must see if I have a gown fit to wear. She knew his appetite from many a homemade dinner and knew also that he had taken Bitch Vorsack’s comments to heart. 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. “Garçon,” he said, “will you ask the gentleman at the next table if he will do me the honour of taking a glass of wine with me.
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