"
Ruth spread out the ruffled skirt, sundrily torn and soiled. "I mustn't tell you what Thames means to do for you if ever he gains his rights,"
continued Winifred; "but I may tell you what my father means to do. "
"The best evidence would be afforded by an accomplice of the assassin,"
rejoined Thames, who was greatly offended by the insinuation as to his
parentage. 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. Now do not make me any more arguments, but tell me at once where
that pig is gone. "Yes; I know I look it," said O'Higgins, amiably. "
To bring down this imperfect sketch of Newgate to the present time, it may be
mentioned, that, being found inadequate to the purpose required, the old jail was
pulled down in 1770.
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