He probably imagines himself to be a thousand times worse off than he actually is. The night his execution was therefore passed in a most anxious state of mind; nor was his uneasiness allayed by the appearance of Jonathan Wild, who, after he had been driven from the roof of the jail, repaired to the Middle Stone Ward in a fit of ungovernable passion, to vent his rage upon the prisoner, whom he looked upon as the cause of the present calamity. . ‘You don’t favour her, bar the black hair. Wood, in deploring his wild career, adverted to the melancholy condition to which it had reduced his mother. . “I think I ought to have one. She cleaned everything, wiped every surface, mopped and scrubbed every last drop of blood. " This placard attracted universal attention. 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. "Nobody composes any more, nobody paints, nobody writes—I mean, on a par with what we've just heard. "No matter. Chapter XXII AN OLD FOOL Lady Ferringhall made room for him on the sofa by her side. dear.
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