She was to see
Capes to-morrow, but now, in this state of misery she had achieved, she felt
assured he would turn his back upon her, take no notice of her at all. Wild himself if I met him," retorted Jack. Is all your
house on the same scale of magnificence as this, Annabel?” she asked, looking
round. "Who've you got with you?" demanded the Amazon, boldly. This was occasioned by
Jonathan Wild, who was seen to mount his horse and join the train. “I ought never have gone to the Zoo, I suppose. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the
ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom
Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;
—the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly
insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the
inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that
ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and,
whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. Instead of English villas and cottages there
were chalets and Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald
and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and mountain, such
shining uplands of snow, as she had never seen before. She laughed a little contemptuously. "I see him!—row
for your life!"
"That's the way to miss him, master," replied Ben coolly. "Gracious Heavens! this is more wonderful than all the rest," cried the carpenter,
rubbing his eyes.
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