I saw their boat swept away, and heard the roar of the fall beneath the bridge; and no one, who was present, could doubt the result. Maggot, bursting into a loud contemptuous laugh. “I feel shabby and disgraced. “I really do not believe,” he announced with satisfaction, “that any one would recognize me. I took him out of the hands of death. 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. " The stranger said nothing, but hastily brushed away a tear. Her first orders were to summon the rest of her servants to make immediate preparations for her departure for Lancashire. Hitherto she had seen it chiefly in pictures and other works of art, incidentally, and as a thing taken out of life.
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