"Is she alive?"
"She is not," replied Trenchard, overcome by conflicting emotions, and unable to
endure the boy's agonized look. Wearied at
length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he
threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to
compose himself to slumber. She hated living like that. Even the teachers were
getting restless, the seniors gnawing hard at the bit as
graduation teased. “You did your best to kill me,” he said. "
The patient was asleep. 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. "Harkye, Sir," rejoined Darrell; "one word before I move. “You have succeeded a little too well in your personation,” she said bitterly, “to
get rid very easily of Mr. “It is too late for visitors,” she remarked.
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