It is a most wonderful piece of good fortune, as I suppose you will be
prepared to admit. 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. "
"Order those who choose to obey you," rejoined the lady scornfully. "He shan't go," cried Edgeworth Bess, holding him by the other hand. "
"You cannot prevent my departure," replied Jack, dauntlessly, "and therefore
your offer is no favour. The dress of this person was excessively
showy, and consisted of a scarlet riding-habit, lined and faced with blue, and
bedizened with broad gold lace, a green silk-knit waistcoat, embroidered with
silver, and decorated with a deep fringe, together with a hat tricked out in the
same gaudy style. I will make her my Grail, and some day, perhaps, if God wills, she shall
become my wife!’”
He looked very hard before him as he said this, and his voice was full of deep
feeling. She was standing there, smiling at the
audience as at her friends. If he was asleep, then she much
regretted that she must wake him up. "At length, I have my wish," continued Mrs. . “The very question shows your ignorance,” he declared. "What?… Oh!… Well, good Lord!" He wrenched loose his head and stood up,
sending the chair clattering to the floor. C.
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