" "And why should you care whether she forgave you or not?" Spurlock jumped to his feet, the look of the damned upon his face. ’ ‘Do you take me for a fool, Hilary?’ demanded his betrothed. ” “Any one could see that the girls were ladies,” Ennison murmured. "Well, I've seen many a gallant fellow in my time, Mr. He embraced her fully. Then the incredible happened. "How?" cried her brother, starting. “It isn’t fair. I’ve seen him, and he doesn’t a bit understand. 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. No fear o' that. ‘I will not, if you will assure me that an imbecile is a better marriage prospect than a starving pig. The performance over, he relaxed and closed his eyes.
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