He urged his conductors to a quicker pace to get out of sight of the distressing spectacle, and even felt relieved when he was shut out from it and the execrations of the mob by the walls of the little prison. 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. Thames said not another word, but marched boldly towards him, and seized him by the collar. ToC On the following night—namely Monday,—the family assembled together, for the first time since the fatal event, in the chamber to which Thames had been introduced on his arrival at Dollis Hill. . And Miss Miniver began to sway her. Jonathan, however, paid no sort of attention to this demonstration of hatred. The tears flowed faster. . He knew very well that his muscles were flabby, and his nerve by no means what it should be. Pitt desired to know if he wanted anything further, and being answered in the negative, he excused himself on the plea that his attendance was required in the court at the Old Bailey, which was then sitting, and withdrew. “Silly!” he remarked after a pause. ‘What would you? The nuns they would not believe me, and so it was not possible for me to stay. To even presume a lustful thought about her was to ask for one’s own death.
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