The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements; —the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and, whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. He wondered why she thought love made people happy, and began to talk of the smilax and pinks that adorned the table. And so, here we are, right back from where we started. ’ ‘Who was to know if you would find your place?’ countered Martha. She felt a storm of emotion surging up within her. He told her something about music, the great world outside. They alighted at the restaurant, and stood for a moment in the passage looking into the crowded room. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. His salvation—if there was to be any—lay in her ignorance of life. ’ ‘So that was it. The bodies had been found in the river without their heads, which were busy decomposing in a ravine. “I wonder,” said Ramage, “that more girls don’t think as you do and want to strike out in the world. Utter silence answered him.
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