“In Paris. 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. "May I beg to know whom I've the pleasure of adressing? Jackson, I conclude, is merely an assumed name. E. ‘How did you get in? The house is all locked up. But I've not promised to stand by him yet; nor will I, unless he turns out an honest lad,—mind that. I have been in torment all the while to know whether it was to Anna or to Annabel that you were making love so charmingly. The dress came to her only too manifestly unwashed from its former wearer; even the under-linen they gave her seemed unclean. ’ Her eyes narrowed. His clothes had evidently seen some service, and were plentifully begrimed with the dust of the workshop. ” She raised her eyebrows. He looked eager and flushed and troubled. ” For a time she sat on a rail before leaving the road for the downland turf.
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