CHAPTER XXVI Spurlock went out on his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him. " "He's no such thing!" cried Mrs. Drummond nodded. " "What a life!" "No worse than yours. It was the last thing she felt like drinking. ” “I came here to talk reasonably, Mr. Usually his charges bored him with their interrogative chatter, for he knew that his information more often than not went into one ear and out of the other. Our mutual safety requires it. 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. “Now, Veronica,” he pleaded, “Veronica, this is most unreasonable. It must be the dawn creeping in. With a strong tendency to satire, but without a particle of malice or ill-nature in its display. It came to Spurlock suddenly that if something did not react in his favour inside of five minutes, he was done.
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