"Von't you hear me?—ough! ough!" demanded Sharples, after a pause. . And now she had sent Jack away. ToC The heart-piercing scream uttered by Mrs. ’ She ended on a note of sheer frustration, clenched fists beating the air. But never had the hand touched her with a father's caress; never had he taken her into his arms; never had he kissed her. ‘Very well,’ he said, lowering his own weapon. ” “We will go to a very quiet place,” he assured her, “a place where I have often taken my own sisters. 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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