“Another young woman, I suppose,” he said, “who knows better than her Maker about her place in the world. It penetrated the skin; benumbed the flesh; paralysed the faculties. 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. His own peculiar genius—a miracle key to the hidden things in men's souls—had given him this immediate and astonishing illumination. Ruth out of the picture, he wouldn't have concerned himself so eagerly in regard to Spurlock's departure. 'He that woos a maid',— fol-de-rol—(hiccupping). Her mind turned to her own future, the endless trickle of years. “Why won’t you sleep in my bed tonight, Lucia, where 80 it’s warm?” He asked her one night, teasing but mournful, as she stood in her bedroom doorway in a long white gown.
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