“Well, he’s really smart. “I wonder if you will?”
“Let me say one thing,” he said. It was in
fact the first embrace of motherhood she had ever known. They were at the corner of Pall
Mall now, and had come to a standstill. She
wore a black satin dress, a little shiny at the seams, a purposeless bow of white
tulle at the back of her neck, and a huge chatelaine. "
"Very interesting," said the Chinaman, with a wave of his tapering hand toward
the roofs. ’
Martha got up with a swish of her black habit. But still
she knew they were not right, and at times they became a horrible obsession as
of something waiting for her round the corner. You tell me he didn't like the stuff. Taking the direction pointed out, he rode off. ’
‘And you will not,’ came triumphantly from the cherry lips. The four tourists contributed varied sums: the
spinsters ten cents each, the girl a shilling, the young man a Mexican dollar. ”
“Sir John is an ass!” he declared. 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.
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