"The gentleman is a stranger to me, Poll," replied the woollen-draper, with increased embarrassment. ‘Parbleu,’ came indignantly from the lady. He waited the pleasure of Monsieur. “You can’t think that I’m fool enough to be put off like this. 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. "What good would it do you to destroy me? For I have courage to kill myself. So, after the dinner was over, Spurlock took her home; and worked far into the night. Goopes had a great set-to about the sincerity of Chesterton and Belloc that was ended by Goopes showing signs of resuming the Socratic method. "In favour of my son. ‘Yes, don’t interrupt me,’ said Captain Roding severely.
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