‘Certainly those are names of the most undistinguished,
and I would scorn to have them. ’
‘Believe me, she wouldn’t have cared. “How’s the star?” John’s father asked. I shouldn't talk like
that. I'll be quiet. I was sorry for what I did afterwards; for, I don't
know why, but, poor, lady! with her pale face, and black eyes, she reminded me
of my mother. 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. ’
‘Oui, mais—’
‘You are, without exception, the most unprincipled, the most unscrupulous, the
most shameless, immoral, devious—’
‘Pardon me, sir,’ burst in Mrs Ibstock suddenly, her tone belligerent, bringing
the captain’s tirade to an abrupt halt as he turned to glare at her. For a long time there had been a standing offer
from the company at Copeley's to take over the McClintock plantation; and today he had decided to sell. In fact, the whole face had
undergone a transformation. You'd be coming up to Hong-Kong, but you'd
be cutting out Canton.
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