’
‘Like this?’
‘Parfait. On the death of his royal patron, he resolved to
return to his own country; and, after various delays, which had postponed it to
the present time, he had succeeded in accomplishing his object. He drew a little breath of relief. A shout was heard at a little distance, and, the next moment, a person
rushed with breathless haste to the stair-head. ”
“Did you ever formally change your name to Albert,
Lucy?”
“No, I did not. So far, however, was this submission from producing the desired effect, that it
seemed only to lend additional fuel to her displeasure. 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.
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