Or was that perhaps because his business in Piccadilly the other day had
gone awry? Perhaps Brewis Charvill had not welcomed him with open arms. “Come,” he said, “this is capital, capital. ’
‘He had no further need of them,’ Gosse said and his laugh sounded heartless
to Melusine. It will be necessary to secure his companion; and as you say he
is not in the house, some caution must be used in approaching him, or he may
chance to take to his heels, for he's a slippery little rascal. One did not use pistols against a female. They're apt to be
surly to strangers, but it soon wears off. "
"Liar!" cried Jack. Admire her as
much as you choose—at a distance. "
"I know you'll contradict it, Sir," said the widow, looking at Wood as if she
dreaded to have her fears confirmed,—"I know you will. 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.
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