Evidently in the flower of his age, he was scarcely less remarkable for symmetry of person than for comeliness of feature; and, though his attire was plain and unpretending, it was such as could be worn only by one belonging to the higher ranks of society. The beautiful gowns and the flashing bare shoulders and arms of the women had disturbed and distressed her. But she must not laugh. The odd creak was not to be avoided in an old house such as this. However, no one had discovered me, so I contrived to drag myself to my horse. Be silent, I say, if you value his safety. “The women are taking it up,” said Miss Miniver; “the women and the common people, all pressing forward, all roused. One’s sense of proportion, battered out of all shape in the daily life of cities, reasserts itself. . ” “It ought to make one happy. Of this I'm certain, however, she was much too good for him, and was never meant to be a journeyman carpenter's wife, still less what is she now. ” “Suppose he comes and talks to me?” “A girl can always keep a man at a distance if she cares to do it. It is just how things happen to be. 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. "Here are some more papers, Captain.
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