“My dear,” the letter ran, “I have to tell you that your sister Gwen has offended your father very much. Annabel, come to the door with me,” she added a little abruptly. "No," rejoined Thames, "I won't be treated like a common felon, if I can help it. “One doesn’t wait,” said Ann Veronica. To-morrow I'll wire Cook's and the American Express in Hong-Kong to see if there is any mail. " "Anything else, Sir?" "No:—stay! you'd better not bring up any silver forks or spoons. 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. ’ ‘Well, I am glad he did not,’ intervened Lucilla, forestalling another withering comment from the captain.
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