‘The fact of it is,’ I said, ‘I’m the new playwright, Thomas More. His quiet, kindly smile implied his serene disbelief in any confessible thing. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:— "Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. There was a lock, apparently more than a foot wide, strongly plated, and girded to the door with thick iron hoops. They know only that the Valades have practised an imposture which affects all society, and some will think your adventures excessively romantic. The sense of publicity, of people coming and going about them, kept them both unemotional.
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