He sat down on the sill of the open window, folded his arms,
and stared straight before him for a long time over the wilderness of tiles and
chimney-pots into a sky that was blue and empty. Without care
he will die. "Do you wish to earn a rich reward, my good friend?" said Thames to the
watchman, as soon as they were left alone. 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. It was approached from the street by a flight of broad
stone steps, leading to a ponderous door, plated with iron, and secured on the
inner side by huge bolts, and a lock, with wards of a prodigious size. "The Wastrel seemed to take it all right. “Then assuredly!” said Manning. Knew something was up. The softly glittering summer stars! She saw them shining over
mountains of snow, over valleys of haze and warm darkness. These
galleries were separated in the middle by iron grates. ”
“But I didn’t lose it that way, did I?” She grew
hysterical. But from the rest—you saved me. It’s got to be at last like tobacco-ash over all
my sayings and doings. "I should never have been what I am, but for you.
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