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. Well, my friend found us out, and would give no quarter. ” “But how?” “I poured him out some port wine, and I said—let me see—oh, ‘You are going to be a grandfather!’” “Yes. He had not bothered to take off his raincoat and his umbrella sat dripping on his modern ice cube of a table. ‘Dieu du ciel, but answer me!’ Martha’s eyes were swimming again, and she reached out. A gust of irrational impatience blew through her being. He came in with his hands in his trousers pockets and a general air of depression in his bearing. . "But the past is irremediable, and I did not come hither to exculpate myself, I came to save your life," he added, turning to Thames.
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