It was only by the adoption of such a course (especially since
the late act of suppression, to which we have alluded,) that the inviolability of
the asylum could be preserved. You cannot care for her. 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. "
"Oh, dear!" simpered Edgeworth Bess, endeavouring to hide her confusion by
looking steadfastly at her plate. “Now,” he said, quietly, “it’s time we stopped this nonsense. Miss Charvill. Sheppard, who had been stricken down by the blow that prostrated
her assailant, looked up, she perceived Jonathan Wild kneeling beside the body
of Blueskin. She was weeping now.
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