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Charcoal. ’ He flushed. 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. The fibre of his soul had to be tested, queerly, to make him
worthy of you. His eyes squeezed shut in ecstasy;
he let out a sigh. This suggestion being approved, was instantly acted upon, and the thief-taker,
accompanied by a body of the grenadiers, rode forward. ”
“But I can’t help but notice from your bookshelf that
you read all sorts of horror and science fiction. Sir
John felt that after all forty-five was not so very old.
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