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. Leonardo had taught her pretty well everything
she could have need to know, when they had talked long at his bedside. “So very clear and
cold,” she said. It would not burden him with any
obligation. All that I regret are the wasted
years, and I am not sure that I regret them. Melusine opened her eyes at him. I decline to waste a single second even in considering the
ugly ones. By Jove! I’m
beginning to have my doubts about freedom!
“You silly young woman, Ann Veronica! You silly young woman! The
smeariness of the thing!
“The smeariness of this sort of thing!. "I thought it best that you should imagine him.
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