Somehow or
other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him
during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of
those women with whom he had been brought into contact. 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. “How dare you!” she panted, with
her world screaming and grimacing insult at her. Treasure caves to
explore!
All through these trying days she had recurrently wondered what this strange
young man would have to say that Dickens and Hugo had not already said. “Besides, it is not so. "
"You shall have all I have about me," replied Darrell. "
"Here you have it, my dear," returned the hawker. .
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