"I yield to
fate. “I was sick of the make-believe. 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. "
Meanwhile, the party at the table continued drinking and chatting as merrily as
before. "
"That, alone, ought to have prevented you from acting as you did, Jack,"
returned Thames, gravely. “What the hell. “I wish I didn’t swear. Happen what
might, he could not be in a worse position. He allowed his irons and clothes to be taken
off without resistance. Denis. For
the love of Heaven, Jack, don't move!—Don't alter a muscle, if you can help it. Things
haven't gone quite as smoothly as I anticipated; but they might have been worse. “I had no idea that it
was so abominably late. You are a sisterless man; you have never heard the ordinary talk that goes on at a
girls’ boarding-school.
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