What you’re after is too risky. 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. I have broken from prison,
and am come to save you. ”
“Cooped up!” he cried. Besides, it did not fit her well, which was why
the loose wimple had slipped. "I never wear false whiskers," went on O'Higgins. "
"Pray do so, Madam," retorted Mrs. "Mercy on us! what have I said!" cried the attendant, greatly alarmed by the
agitation of her mistress; "do sit down, your ladyship, while I run for the ratifia
and rosa solis. Then
he stood up and repeated it again. It is her duty to tell
me, and I would not have her think that I had been trying to work upon your
sympathies to learn her secrets.
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