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The tall, blond
boys, right?”
“That’s them. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. "She considers her future blasted beyond hope. ’
‘And where do you propose to go?’ enquired Gerald carefully. It is not every sort of creature needs—these males. "Mr. "If the best nag ever
foaled were to throw me in this unlucky spot, I'd blow his brains out. You are all the beauty in the world. ‘But if there is
one, how in the world did this mystery lady of yours know of it?’
‘That, Lucy, is precisely the point that has been exercising my mind,’ Gerald
said, turning his eyes once more to the group of French exiles in the alcove. I know not who you
are; and, as I cannot discern your face, I may be doing you an injustice. 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. ‘Ain’t no call for
you to go a-blaming of yourself.
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