Canton at night is as much China as the border town of Lan-Chow-fu. 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. While involved in this crowd, near Temple Bar, —where the thoroughfare was most dangerous from the masses of ruin that impeded it,—an individual, whose swarthy features recalled to the carpenter one of his tormentors of the previous night, collared him, and, with bitter imprecations accused him of stealing his child. ” “I will tell you what there is about her which is so fetching,” Drummond, who was lounging by, declared. I was certain of it. “There was a keg, hash, LSD, pot, you know, the usual. ‘You will not guess again?’ ‘No, no, I am quite out of ideas. We've made a pretty penny by him—sixty guineas this blessed day. " "Your ladyship——" hesitated Norris. “I have brought you very nearly to my door. I do not command the services of a person who will not tell me why he offers them. They went on talking in the train—it seemed to her father a slight want of deference to him—and he listened and pretended to read the Times. Look at these walls. Here I am as an alternative either to nasty work—or going home. “I thought you wanted to have a talk to me,” she said.
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