‘Major Gerald Alderley, mademoiselle, quite at your service. Good-looking girl. The devastations, however, were speedily made good, and, in two years more, it was finished. ‘Left to yourself, my girl, you may not have any affairs. She arrived about nine o’clock the next evening in a state of tremulous enthusiasm. Assured, if he remained much longer where he was, he would inevitably perish, Wood recommended himself to the protection of Heaven, and began his perilous course. The darkness was almost palpable; and the wind which, hitherto, had been blowing in gusts, was suddenly lulled. He rambled in an unfortunate monotone, the result of his innate fear of public speaking. ‘Do not smile at me and try to make me not angry any more,’ Melusine warned, ‘for I am very angry indeed with you. The enclosure by which it was surrounded was about twelve feet high; the under part being composed of taken planks, the upper of a strong iron grating, surmounted by sharp iron spikes. "I've the Bridewell account to settle. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:— "Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. " "Ask them, all of them, and I will gladly answer. One marked difference between the poor outcast, who, oppressed by poverty, and stung by shame, had sought temporary relief in the stupifying draught,—that worst "medicine of a mind diseased,"—and those of the same being, freed from her vices, and restored to comfort and contentment, if not to happiness, by a more prosperous course of events, was exhibited in the mouth.
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