’
A little sigh escaped her. The coachman having received his order, and being offered an extra fare if he
drove quickly, set off at full speed. ’
‘Yes,’ she agreed, but her manner was a degree less warm. There you are,
the best client’s chair. Buck up. 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. Natives brought him an equal amount from the
neighbouring islands. There was little more here than a sideboard, a chest for the vestments, and a
simple wooden chair. "Well, I'm not far from the mark.
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