The old man Pottiswick, still grumbling, much to Melusine’s disgust, had
gone on his errand to his daughter’s house some two miles distant. ”
“I am sure,” Lady Lescelles said, gently, “that the last consideration need not
weigh with you in the least. We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. ’
The eyes flashed momentarily. 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. 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. \"Shoes!!\" Michelle's mother cried. She
tried not to blush.
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