Part 6 When Ann Veronica reached her little bed-sitting-room again, every nerve in her body was quivering with shame and self-disgust. “There’s endless reasons, no doubt, why we shouldn’t,” he said. ‘You little fool! I’m a trained soldier with ten years experience at my back. Fresh ground, no chicory, and all the rest of it. “They are coming past our table. But you! Ruth is your lawful wife. There lay upon this stand a book bound in limp black leather—the Holy Bible. “Oh yes,” said Miss Klegg; “I thought every one knew. Then she looked at her aunt, and traced with a curious eye the careful arrangement of her hair, her sharp nose, the little drooping lines of mouth and chin and cheek. You certainly had to hand it to these Chinks. You have grown into my life, and I cannot tear you out. 82 She was putting a manuscript away, gingerly locking its heavy tooled cover, but it was a huge, awkward tome. " "Oh, a shave and a clean suit will do a lot. “Yes,” she said at last, “it is firm and affectionate. 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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