A time may come when this little chap will need my aid, and,
depend upon it, he shall never want a friend in Owen Wood. The joke of it is that he’s married to her now, and cuts me dead. “Yeah. She found no ready reply to that, and he went on: “This music is the food of
love. ’
‘By all means,’ agreed Lucy at once, and ignoring the automatic protest that
issued from Roding’s lips, she threw a command over her shoulder as she turned
to go. "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?"
"The first day you came. Non. 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. Terror had laid a paralyzing hand upon her,
fear kept her almost unconscious of the curious glances which she was
continually attracting. There was nothing left now of the selfassured, prosperous man of affairs. .
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