The birds were singing blithely amid the trees,—the
lowing of the cows resounded from the yard,—a delicious perfume from the
garden was wafted through the open window,—at a distance, the church-bells of
Willesden were heard tolling for evening service. "Give them what you please. Knowing Diane’s feelings towards her family,
Lucy was inwardly shocked when Diane invited her to
stay. “Which is Mr. Would you like to see them at work?"
"Lead on, Macduff!"
Ah Cum raised the skirt of his fluttering blue silk robe and stored the bill away
in a trouser wallet. "
"Delay the marriage till then. E. You do not believe his statement?"
"I do not," replied Winifred. The uproar was tremendous—men yelling—
dogs barking,—but above all was heard the stentorian voice of Jonathan, urging
them on. Her family are solid West End people, Kensington people. 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.
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