“You will have some tea?” she asked. ‘I suppose this is the cavalier you had with you when you—er—attended the ball the other night?’ ‘Jacques is very useful to me,’ Melusine confirmed, bestowing that same radiant smile on the young man, whose features were instantly suffused with scarlet. You seem to want this chap out of Canton. One would think that you enjoyed crawling away out of your world into hiding, with a very foolish wicked wife. ‘Come, mademoiselle, it is of no use to conceal anything from me, you know. 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. “You promised faithfully to be there,” he said slowly. “Ever yours, “ANNABEL. A few yards further off something grey, inert, was lying, a huddled-up heap of humanity twisted into a strange unnatural shape. London Bridge had suffered a degree less than most places.
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