I love him as a brother. It was a spring-tide at half ebb; and the current, which was running fast and furiously, bore him instantly away. A thickly-set, sandy young man, with an unwholesome complexion and grease-smooth hair, had entered the room. Unlocking several doors, he came to a dark vault, that would have rivalled the gloomiest cell in Newgate, into which he thrust Thames, and fastened the door. “I think everything’s right,” said Ann Veronica, with the roaming eye of a capable but not devoted house-mistress. " Upon which, with an assurance that he would not do so, the attendant departed. She would have to leave very soon. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements; —the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and, whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. I was raised in the Church.
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