But she had not reckoned with the etiquette
of Canongate. ‘I rather suspect,’ added Prudence, ‘that Major Alderley’s motives were
somewhat different. Milice,’ Gerald translated. 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. When things are at the worst, they'll
mend. Meanwhile, the clergyman, bare-headed and in his surplice, advanced to meet
them. . ‘I have not asked for this trouble from anyone. The girl in the forward chair raised herself a little, the better to see the gorgeous
blue palanquin of the dimly visible bride. I’m sorry. "No bones broken, I hope," said Thames, laughing at Jack, who limped towards
the bench, rubbing his shins as he went. I told
you no good would come of it. "Mr.
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