He began to think of
speeches, very firm, explicit speeches, he would make. They tried to read
illustrated papers in an unconcerned manner and with forced attention, lest they
should catch the leaping exultation in each other’s eyes. 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. Gentlemen, I am proud to say that I originated—that I directed those
measures. . Death belongs to God, young
man. We wore invisible chains and
invisible blinkers. Papillon would have broken him down; anything tender
would have sapped his will; and like as not he would have left the stool and
rushed into the night. “I know you very well by
sight, Sir John. This laughter released something that had been striving for expression—her own
natural buoyancy. But if I were you, I shouldn't
warn Spurlock. ToC
On the following night—namely Monday,—the family assembled together, for
the first time since the fatal event, in the chamber to which Thames had been
introduced on his arrival at Dollis Hill.
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