I could make away with him at once, as you
are about to make away with your nephew, Sir Rowland,—but that wouldn't
serve my turn. ‘Don’t look at me like that,’ Martha begged. His vocal collection comprised a couple of flash
songs pasted against the wall, entitled 'The Thief-Catcher's Prophecy,' and the
'Life and Death of the Darkman's Budge;' while his extraordinary mechanical
skill was displayed in what he termed (Jack had a supreme contempt for
orthography,) a 'Moddle of his Mas. To him she had always appeared as a mere pleasure-loving
parasite—something quite insignificant. You are wedged in amongst a crowd, perhaps in the
promenade, you lean over the back, you are almost out of sight. It was a serene and charming evening, and twilight was
gently stealing over the face of the country. 260
“Can you turn me into one?”
“Yes, I can turn you into one tonight. ”
Ten thousand! Put that way it seemed so different. 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. ‘You were supposed to be nursing him,’ Martha grumbled, ‘and helping him
convalesce. "I don't exactly know the rights of that affair," rejoined Griffin, with some
curiosity.
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