One of the reasons why I
left Paris and came to London was because there was a man there who wanted
me to marry him. “I have just ordered a carriage
for her. Kneebone, who had drained his glass
to the restoration of the house of Stuart, and the downfall of the house of
Hanover, more frequently than was consistent with prudence, consented; and the
trio set out for Wych Street, where they arrived in the jolliest humour possible. But he had always felt (he had never allowed himself to think of it) that the
promptitude of their family was a little indelicate of her, and in a sense an
intrusion. She could read
that Martin had a crush on her and was perhaps even
going to try and challenge John as he was the bold sort. Hurrying down the Haymarket, he was arrested by a crowd who were collected
round a street-singer. Including the
wings, it presented a frontage of five hundred and forty feet. 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. He seemed to deliberate. My letters are
returned unopened, her maid will not even allow me across the doorstep. Sordid; but that was not Ruth's term
for it; she had no precise commentary to offer.
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