At length Jack Sheppard observed:—"The coast's clear. Amid this tumult, several men armed with tremendous bludgeons, with their faces besmeared with grease and soot, and otherwise disguised, were observed to be urging the populace to attempt a rescue. A rock gave way to deep water. The settlements which he has spoken of, too, are most munificent. ‘Eh bien?’ ‘You are perfectly right, Melusine. Her hair was held back in a filigreed barrette. On all hands Jack was cheered, and Jonathan hooted. 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. ’ Melusine’s eyes flashed. “Before I came to England I was told that there were two things which an Englishman who was comme-ilfaut never did. Then they dressed her in a dirty dress of coarse serge and a cap, and took away her own clothes.
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