"Can't you take me with you?" urged the voice; "I'll make it well worth your
while. "
"Blueskin's only chance would be to carry his threat into effect," pursued the
woollen-draper. "Well, I won't dispute your judgment in such matters, Mr. But
she had spent nearly half of it, and had no conception of how such a sum could
be made good again. ”
“I am staying,” she answered coolly, “at a small boarding-house near Russell
Square. ” She said to him. The lad looked alarmed. And if I don’t, I go mad. “I wonder,” she murmured to herself, “if this is the beginning. 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. He looked at it with uplifted eyebrows, but made no remark.
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