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. Yet you catch
her eye—you can’t seem to escape from it. “Anyway, enough about that. And it’s no good pretending there is
one when there isn’t. But how
am I to know of things?”
“Some things I hope you may never know,” he said. "What's that you're saying about Jack Sheppard?" she cried. ‘No! Let me alone!’
‘It is not safe!’
‘That is entirely my affair, and not your affair in the least,’ she told him
haughtily. What hotel should she go to? If she told a
cabman to drive to an hotel, any hotel, what would he do—or say? He might
drive to something dreadfully expensive, and not at all the quiet sort of thing she
required. Got the tickets? Yes, but then—you said you borrowed?”
“I did, too,” said Ann Veronica. There it is. “No,” she answered. Both the fugitive and his chasers embarked on the
Thames. I’d rather starve!”
For a moment the conversation hung upon that declaration. It was a look that accorded very well with the hayloft
setting that had come to mind.
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