She realized dimly that there was no personal thing behind
his cry, that countless myriads of Mannings had “My God!”-ed with an equal
gusto at situations as flatly apprehended. "
"Perhaps so," rejoined the stranger; "but I have others in reserve, not so
generally known. And you have stolen my dagger. The loud noise
proceeding from the couch proved that their slumbers were deep and real; and
unconscious of the danger in which she stood, Mrs. I proved myself
early as an athlete, skills I retained long after my return
home. Fretting and fidgeting, he had, after
an hour or so, turned to McClintock. While this took place, while Quilt thundered at the inner door, and Jack drew
back the bolts of the outer, a deep, manly voice was heard chanting—as if in
contempt of the general uproar—the following strain:—
With pipe and punch upon the board,
And smiling nymphs around us;
No tavern could more mirth afford
Than old Saint Giles's round-house!
The round-house! the round-house!
The jolly—jolly round-house!
"The jolly, jolly round-house!" chorussed Sheppard, as the last bar yielded to his
efforts. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. She gathered up the chain, revealing a
locket which had lain hidden in her bosom. Is that it? I thought this very pretty.
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