"The idea of a Malay, born Mahometan, being reared in the Vatican, hit me as
funny. But all normal humans smelled wonderful to her, even
dirty ones. It’s the
rarest luck, the wildest, most impossible accident. You’re
dealing with me now, not Gerald. “You are a miracle! God spares few from the
Pestilence. Yet her aunt, with a ringed hand flitting to
her lips and a puzzled, worried look in her eyes, deaf to all this riot of warmth
and flitting desire, was playing Patience—playing Patience, as if Dionysius and
her curate had died together. You wore a blue
dress with your hair unbound, and never had I seen a
maid so glorious with eyes so blue or a smile so bright. She made a step forward. "The long and the short o' the matter's this then," returned Sharples with dignity,
"the Markis begs your acceptance o' ten guineas to drink his health. 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. He will say who it was. "An oath weighs little with me,
compared with your safety. Italians. ”
He recovered himself. The
old fool’s been working on you through your sister to keep off the stage.
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