"Take it," cried Wood, holding the infant towards her; "take it, and fly. Apparently he thought it very much worth while. ‘She is constantly thinking of you,’ I said. . "What poet was that?" "Stevenson. " Prudence shrugged. I had no idea you were not the happiest girl. It has been said, that the pier of each arch, or lock of Old London Bridge, was defended from the force of the tide by a huge projecting spur called a starling. Tell me all that happened, one sister-woman to another. But, what brought you here?" "Excuse me, Sir Rowland. A piece of old blanket was fastened across her shoulders, and she had no other clothing except a petticoat. 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.
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