Why
did I not realise it at once? It just shows how one should not judge by
appearances. ”
Anna glanced momentarily towards her sister, but Annabel neither spoke nor
moved. ’
‘True enough,’ nodded Martha sadly. If I had been your companion only, and not your
master, I might very well have been content to accept you for what you seem. She went to market every day to fetch the daily bread
and more herbs for more medicines and potions, plus
treats for the apprentices made of honey and almond
paste. It was a spring-tide at half ebb; and the current,
which was running fast and furiously, bore him instantly away. Anna found herself next Sydney
Courtlaw, with his friend close at hand. 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. You will not have to wait long for the
information. "Well!" cried Mrs. “You will write to me, I am sure—and from the date of your letter I trust most
earnestly that I may come back to my old place as
“Your devoted friend,
“WALTER BRENDON. Occasionally the canvas snapped as the
wind veered slightly.
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