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. They then took off their boots, and crept stealthily up stairs, treading
upon the point of their toes so cautiously, that not a board creaked beneath their
weight. "
"And you whipped the beast? I passed him. "Speak, or I fire!"
"Well, if you will have it, it's Sir Rowland Trenchard. As he anticipated, he was here comparatively
screened from the fury of the wind; and when he gazed upon the roaring fall
beneath him, visible through the darkness in a glistening sheet of foam, his heart
overflowed with gratitude for his providential deliverance. Suddenly she understood. That's a queer yarn. Take your half loaf with the
others. And you promised to tell me.
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