You say that this
gentleman was with you?”
“I was,” Brendon answered, “most providentially. “I wonder,” he said, “how you would like to be made love to—boldly or
timorously or sentimentally. If
not, keep up your spirits. He could not understand how men could live
ignoring this one predominant interest, this wonderful research into personality
and the possibilities of pleasing, these complex, fascinating expeditions that
began in interest and mounted to the supremest, most passionate intimacy. 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. "Drink this," cried Jonathan, handing her the cup. “I do not know. But I can't submit to hear the wellearned reputation of my friend termed an 'infamous notoriety. He was inclined to be a good-natured person, and he
had no nervous fears of receiving a snub. "You're not hurt I hope, Sir Rowland?" inquired this individual. "
"Is that all!" retorted Jonathan.
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