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. ”
John introduced her to couple after couple, a dizzying
array of new people that she could not catalogue in her
memory quickly enough. ’
‘Don’t you believe it. It was
convenient for Father Saint-Simon, who could enter this way and prepare in the
little room before going up the narrow stair to the chapel above where the nuns
waited. Jack was in excellent spirits; and by his wit, drollery and
agreeable demeanour, speedily became a great favourite with the turnkey, who
allowed him every indulgence consistent with his situation.
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