“Your success here is absolutely meteoric. 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. Vexation at his folly in suffering himself to be thus entrapped kept Wood for a short time silent. " "But it is the sight of you!" "All right, Hoddy. He will say who it was. ” “I knew it,” Ennison exclaimed. He stood by her side, and he suffered her hands to rest in his. He seemed to charge her with the ruin of their situation. He pulled down a chair to her left. That's worth something to me; for I don't mind paying for revenge. “I’m very shy, and I would like to opt out if you don’t mind. A little smothered cry broke from her lips—the curtains were thrown aside and a man stepped out. He HAD followed her! What had he followed her for? He must have followed her all the way from beyond Grosvenor Square.
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