She felt that Ann Veronica had duped her in that dream, and now that she had come up to London she might as well speak her mind. Several men and women were piled there like wood, dead, horribly gored. But men are so careless, there's no trusting anything to them! However, I must try to brazen it out. " "You, Miss Enschede?"—frankly astonished that one stranger should offer succour to another. My profession has hardened me. As soon as he finished a sheet, he tossed it aside and began another. She could not look at him through an interval that seemed to her a vast gulf of time. He has told me sufficient of you—" "My dear," interposed Wood, "for goodness' sake—" "I will speak," screamed his wife, totally disregarding the interruption; "I will tell this worthless creature what I know about her,—and what I think of her. "Buck up! While there's life there's hope. “You see,” said Ann Veronica, with the air of one who shares a difficulty, “I’ve promised to go. On the cords being removed, he made a desperate spring at Wild, bore him to the ground, clutched at his throat, and would, infallibly, have strangled him, if the keepers had not all thrown themselves upon him, and by main force torn him off. 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.
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