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. “Why, I do not know. ”
Chapter III
ANNA? OR ANNABEL?
Sir John was wholly unable to understand the laugh and semi-ironical cheer
which greeted his entrance to the smoking-room of the English Club on the
following evening. But
the wench who tricked me shall bitterly repent it. He smiled at Ruth as she turned away from the bed, smiled
with both his mouth and eyes; and she knew that here would be a man of heart as
well as of science. And there was another matter. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the
ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom
Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;
—the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly
insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the
inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that
ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and,
whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. It was his purpose to complete
four or five stories before he sent any away. “Ungracious little beast, I call her. ”
Ann Veronica could have wept with vexation. Even
then she had understood vaguely that she had touched upon some philosophy of
life: that one was never lonely when alone, only in the midst of crowds. “I am under police surveillance,” she said. You have actually given up a dinner-party to dine alone with
me. I shan't let you off a farthing.
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