“Very likely,” he answered. ToC Twelve years! How many events have occurred during that long interval! how many changes have taken place! The whole aspect of things is altered. “I like you very much John. Ruth made a little gesture, of infinite pity; and this was quickly seized upon by the slant-eyed Chinese girl. 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. Don’t leave me in this beastly thing. ’ ‘That’s just it,’ said Joan Ibstock shamefacedly. The rascal will be at work before the morning. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. " "I know what is good," she replied. ” She replied. ’ ‘No, sister, I know that, but—’ ‘You needn’t tell me. ’ She shrugged. Jack who had not been in a place of worship for many years was powerfully affected.
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