Affixed to the
wall, in a conspicuous situation, was a large placard, which, after minutely
describing Sheppard's appearance and attire, concluded thus:—"Whoever will
discover or apprehend the above JOHN SHEPPARD, so that he be brought to
justice, shall receive ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS REWARD, to be paid by MR. 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. " The doctor ran his fingers through his hair, despairingly. I shall like to think of it—whenever I feel dull. I
have nothing, nothing that can possibly be passion for you. His hands came up, his face
broke apart. But a middle-aged man like Ramage ought to know
better than to draw out a girl, the daughter of a friend and neighbor. "
"How did you escape?" asked Sheppard, who, as he shook off his slumber, began
to recall the events of the previous night. ”
“Oh, well!” he said, a little doubtfully, “it’s just a phase,” and bent down and
rested his hand on her shoulder for a moment, with his heart beating and his
nerves a-quiver. But after all, Mrs. So, forthwith, without any preliminaries beyond introductions, he began the
ceremony; and shortly Ruth Enschede became Ruth Spurlock, for better or for
worse. There’s no
family uniting instinct, anyhow; it’s habit and sentiment and material
convenience hold families together after adolescence.
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