" By
another—the no less facetious Ned Ward—it was termed, "A costly college for a
crack-brained society, raised in a mad age, when the chiefs of the city were in a
great danger of losing their senses, and so contrived it the more noble for their
own reception; or they would never have flung away so much money to so
foolish a purpose. "
Before Austin could recover himself, Jack and Mrs. ‘It is nothing. ’
They passed through a little antechamber, and Melusine sighed with relief as
she entered the library next door. "No matter," replied Sheppard. 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. "
"There was a yacht in the river?"
"I have nothing to say. "
"The boy's not at my house," replied Wild. "And I'll bet a
doughnut that boy in his soul is crazy to have it over with. For a while they stood there, silent, motionless, staring at the doorway where
still a few strings of the bamboo curtain swayed and twisted, agitated by the
Wastrel's passage. ”
He faced her doggedly.
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