“If you must go on with it,” said Hetty, “now’s your time. ’ ‘The nuns?’ she said, gazing at him innocently. “Do not force me to take you seriously,” she continued. Nothing shall induce me to act contrary to the dictates of my conscience. You complain of a condition, but you leave the correction to someone else. If only sometimes he would grow angry at her, impatient! But his tender courtesy was unfailing; and under this would be the abiding bitterness of having mistaken gratitude for love. " Trenchard took up a pen. The original passage, Martha had told her, had led only from an upstairs room to one downstairs. "Well, he won't do that here. 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. She tried surreptitiously to reach her own dagger, in its cunning hiding place in her petticoat.
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