The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect
light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy
drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance,
but with a very shrewd aspect. A dull light shone through the open window blinds
and softened the room with parchment yellowness. 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. I am on my way to an aunt who lives in Hartford,
Connecticut. The one
profession, the one decent profession, I mean, for a woman—except the stage—
is teaching, and there we trample on one another. "
"Sir Rowland," said Jonathan, turning to the knight, "will it please you to remain
here till I return, or will you accompany us?"
"I will go with you," answered Trenchard, who, by this time, had regained his
composure, and with it all his relentlessness of purpose. A simple wooden monument was placed over the grave, but
without any name or date. “I wouldn’t make this objection,” Mr.
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