When they got to the door, Jack opened it, and, mimicking the voice of the jailer,
shouted, "Now, my lads, all's ready?"
"Here we are," cried the chairmen, hurrying out of the court with their swinging
vehicle, "where is he?"
"Here," replied Sheppard, dragging out Shotbolt by the collar, while Blueskin
pushed him behind, and Mrs. Somewhere, where we
can talk without interruption. I felt—I felt living in a masked world. 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.
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