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Won’t you come and have some tea with me? There is a new
place in Bond Street,” he hastened to say, “where everything is very well done,
and they give us music, if that is any attraction to you. I
thought one had only to take it by the throat. It was not a hopeful looking group. Look at me. And the fact that it was dressed in riding gear had fooled her
into thinking it was her own image. The shape of the
head, the height and breadth of the brow, the angle of the nose, the cut of the
chin and jaws, all were fine, of a type she had never before looked upon closely. At noon the doctor himself arrived. ”
Part 6
Then, arising she knew not how, like a new-born appetite, came a craving in
Ann Veronica for the sight and sound of beauty. 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. The prospect of the
gallows would never deter me from taking to the road, if I were so inclined. ’
Melusine knew it to be true.
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