“You come into these sordid surroundings—you mustn’t mind my calling them sordid—and it makes them seem as though they didn’t matter. Lucy stared like an automaton at Michelle’s unconscious 262 body, revolted at her own actions to the point of shock. The youth produced a crumpled-up card from his waistcoat pocket. We'll celebrate that check, and let the rest of the world go hang. ‘I begin to ask myself why it is that I wish to become of these 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. Jonathan Wild. “You told me that in the Zoological Gardens. Every one took him for the millionaire, and he had lost his head about me. Everything in his favour—the luck of the gods! The only white men were miles down the coast.
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