Cased and ribbed with stone, and braced with horizontal beams of timber, the piles, which formed the foundation of these jetties, had resisted the strong encroachments of the current for centuries. ’ ‘Woof!’ Sergeant Trodger’s eyes fairly popped out of his head, and he seized his prisoner’s arm again. “It is an annoyance, my friend,” she said, “not a tragedy. It was hard to resist. 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 resemblance was amazing! And some man—he was good-looking—was in the background. Eluding the blow, Jack plucked his sword from the scabbard, and a desperate conflict began. "Anything that concerns Ruth is of interest to me. After all a thousand pounds is a trifle to rid you of an upstart, who may chance to deprive you of tens of thousands. “May I be allowed to say,” he declared, “that I came here with the same intention. A buxom piece, who looked, Gerald decided, as if she would be more at home in an amorous engagement in a hayloft than sitting demurely in a ballroom. It was a pity people had to eat food. ” “And I may bring my luggage in and send that cabman away?” Anna asked.
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