Opposite, his
pupil stood with bowed head and clasped hands. He had an appointment
in Jersey, you know, after he left the army. “But my dear Ann Veronica, you will be getting into debt!”
Ann Veronica at once, and with a feeling of immense relief, took refuge in her
dignity. He was wearing a new silk hat, with a slightly more generous brim than its
predecessor, and it suited his type of face, robbed his dark eyes a little of their
aggressiveness and gave him a solid and dignified and benevolent air. 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. ‘There are no Remenhams left. But we cannot discuss this here. Both Spurlock and McClintock stood by their chairs until she was gone. ‘I wish you joy of the wench. The
splendid voices sang on from phase to phase of love’s unfolding, the ship drove
across the sea to the beating rhythm of the rowers.
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