One of the sampans was hailed, and a ropeladder was lowered. 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. When the carpenter concluded his
recital, Jonathan was for a moment lost in reflection. No doubt he knew
enough of his world to recognise that he stood little chance against the word of a
major of militia. She opened the window, for the night was mild, and sat on the floor with her
chin resting upon the window-sill. Last time I left home I felt as hard as nails. Her features were still slightly
marked by the disorder alluded to in the description of her as a child,—but that
was the only drawback to her beauty. "
With this assurance, and at the reiterated request of Thames, the little girl
reluctantly withdrew.
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