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" "Decidedly so," replied Edgeworth Bess; "and I'll take this opportunity, while Jack's back is turned,—for he's grown so strangely particular,—of easing him of his snuff-box. Taking a firm grasp of his pistol, Gerald eased back, let go the handle of the door, and at the same instant, swung his booted foot. There was little fighting spirit here. ‘But for now, I’m taking you home. Perceiving he was about to take leave, Kneebone ventured to ask whom he had had the honour of addressing. ’ ‘Damnation!’ Gerald burst out, crossing towards her. He was inclined to be a good-natured person, and he had no nervous fears of receiving a snub. “Let me know the truth. 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. "I wonder how she picked up Kanaka? On her island they don't talk Kanaka lingo. One went in for painting, kept straight and married old Ferringhall a week or so ago—the Lord help her. The spectacle seemed to afford as much amusement to Jonathan as to the actors engaged in it. So often as she had herself manipulated a dagger, she could not mistake the shape that pressured across her chest, or the sharp point that dug below her bosom.
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