But why do you ask?"
"Because—" stammered the boy. ”
She laughed heartily, and became as suddenly grave. The rain smelled of
the Tyrrhenian Sea, which lay only a few paces beyond
the manor's white sea-soaked walls. Montague Hill, and I do not
think that under those circumstances I should be long about it. "
"Bah!" returned the woollen-draper. The island was snake-free. ” But
now she doubted again of the quality of the armistice they had just made. After a day or so, perhaps, we will go on one or two
little excursions and see how good your head is—a mild scramble or so; and then
up to a hut on a pass just here, and out upon the Blumlis-alp glacier that spreads
out so and so. 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. She was
fatigued physically and mentally, and neither mind nor body could rest.
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