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. ” “He only heard this afternoon,” Sydney continued. The world, perhaps, will be educated out of its idea of fixed standards. Startled by this circumstance, he looked around, and perceived that the trap-door,—which has been mentioned as communicating with a secret staircase,—was open. The next weekend arrived and she made her decision. She had a bittersweet fragrance, like dusty books and honeysuckle. She put back her hood in a determined way. And now you must go back, take up your work and think all this over. Chuck was parading around with Joanie’s brassiere and underpanties on, with the kids in the very next room! It was hard to look into Chuck’s eyes when she invited the couple over for dinner after witnessing Chuck’s little episode. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous.
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