Indignation carried her through that night, that men and the world could so entreat her. " "I can answer that," replied Thames. A little smothered cry broke from her lips—the curtains were thrown aside and a man stepped out. Originally built, as its name imports, in a cylindrical form, like a modern Martello tower, it had undergone, from time to time, so many alterations, that its symmetry was, in a great measure, destroyed. 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. " "By no means," rejoined Wood, hastily. And some were adorned with engravings that struck her as being more vulgar and undesirable than anything she had ever seen in her life. ‘Ain’t my place, I know that. ’ ‘Pah! How can it be romantic? That is silly. ‘You don’t mean to say she’s here?’ ‘Was,’ Gerald corrected. The effort of self-repression cost him a sob. Whether it was the nun’s habit or the harlot’s clothing that distressed her more, he could not begin to guess.
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