His revelry, however, was put an end at the expiration of the time mentioned by Jonathan, by the entrance of a posse of constables with Quilt Arnold and Abraham Mendez at their head. A young woman with a white badge on her arm stood and counted the sections as they entered their vans. It was about twelve feet high, nine wide, and fourteen long; and was approached by double doors each six inches thick. The voices went into his ears but left no impression of their import. 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. Then he lifted the black cloak-like garment from the floor. John, I have something to say to you. She would not forgive me. A strong coarse man, and there were things in his eyes which made my blood run cold with terror. Time enough to do so when she has her affairs settled—if she can settle them.
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