CHAPTER VIII. "You thank Heaven for the escape of the man who did his best to get your child's neck twisted. Of all the amazing coincidences. He drove it into her missionary style, and though he was worried about hurting her, he could not stop himself from thrusting into her deeply. Wearied at length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to compose himself to slumber. The candle was shaking in his hand as Ruth appeared in the doorway. His sister followed. “I find the two inseparable. 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. Now we meet again, and you will scarcely look at me. Someone had thoughtfully wrapped a bit of tissue paper round the electric bulb.
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