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Part 6
It was remarkable to Ann Veronica how completely Mr. One morning, as he took his stand on the Hong-Kong packet dock to ambush the
possible tourist, he witnessed the arrival of a tubby schooner, dirty gray and
blotched as though she had run through fire. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the
ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom
Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;
—the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly
insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the
inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that
ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and,
whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. She spoke with fluent enthusiasm. He had never liked
to be hugged, but she wondered if his corporeal needs
would be made apparent by human touch. But that still left the forty pounds!. After all a thousand
pounds is a trifle to rid you of an upstart, who may chance to deprive you of tens
of thousands. This
astute personage was somewhat under the middle size, but fairly proportioned,
inclining rather to strength than symmetry, and abounding more in muscle than
in flesh. Lad, I admire you even in your folly. "You shall not pass," cried several of the crowd. “I doubted my luck, at least. ‘That’s right, you bone idle do-nothings.
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