Cautioning the knight, if he valued his neck, to tread carefully, Jonathan then
descended a steep flight of steps; and, having reached the bottom in safety, he
pushed open a door, that swung back on its hinges as soon as it had admitted
him; and, followed by Trenchard, entered the night-cellar. "
"Degrade herself," rejoined Jonathan, brutally. 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. ‘Think it’s worth getting some sort of light and following her down there?’
asked Roding. "
As she said this, she drew a little aside, while Mrs. “If I sit here,” he said, standing up before her abruptly, “I shall have to shout. "It's a whale of a place. I’ve to collect my
sword and hat, and then we must get back to London.
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