So she brought
upon the stage the Reverend Henry Dolby, a preacher of means, worldly-wise
and kindly, cheery and rotund, who, with his wife and daughter, had arrived at
the Victoria that morning. The resemblance was
amazing! And some man—he was good-looking—was
in the background. At the door through which she had entered the room stood the so-called
Monsieur Valade. 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. \"I saw you walking down the street with someone,
Lucy. It was also cold, and dark,
for there had been no time to light the lantern. "But be prudent, my
angel. . We’re regarded as inflammable litter that
mustn’t be left about. To him she had always appeared as a mere pleasure-loving
parasite—something quite insignificant.
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