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The title of this play gives a sensation of both pain
and pleasure.—Fontainbleau was a favourite residence
of a number of the French kings, and the spot where
the princes of the blood resorted, with all the nobility
of the land, when the sports of the field, or the course,
were the particular objects of their pastime. ... |
At the time this opera was written, (in 1784) the late
Duke of Orleans frequently visited England, and was
remarkable for his passionate attachment to British
modes and manners. The character of Colonel Epaulette,
in this drama, was supposed to be founded on
this, his highness's extravagant partiality. There is
that tr... |
The author would not take the liberty to characterise
a foreigner, without dealing, at the same time,
equally free with one of his own countrymen. The
part of Lackland was taken more exactly from life,
than that of Epaulette, from a gentleman well known
abroad by every English traveller; and whose real
name is so very ... |
The reader will observe in this Lackland, so much
of debased nature, and of whimsical art; so much
of what he has probably met with upon journeys, or
amongst common intruders at home, that he will regret,
that the author, in his delineation, swerves now
and then from that standard of truth, to which he,
possibly, at fi... |
Lapoche is, perhaps, an exact Frenchman of the
time in which he was drawn; and, as such, the most
agreeable object for an Englishman's ridicule. The
mistakes which occur, to both Mr. and Mrs. Bull,
in respect to this insignificant, and that pompous man,
Epaulette, are incidents of very rich humour, though
they place th... |
When music had fewer charms for the British nation,
operas were required to possess more of interesting
fable than at present is necessary—for now, so rapturous
is the enjoyment derived from this enchanting
art, even by the vulgar, that plot, events, and characters
of genuine worth, would be cast away in a
production, ... |
He shall prepare and superintend the administration of
medicines, visit the wards frequently, and carefully note
the condition and progress of individual cases; see that the
directions of the Superintendent are faithfully executed,
and promptly report any case of neglect or abuse that may
come under his observation, or... |
He shall assist in devising employment and recreation
for the patients, and endeavor in every way to promote
their comfort and recovery; keep such records of cases as
the Superintendent may direct, assist in preparing statistics,
and conducting correspondence, and he shall perform
such other duties of his office as pro... |
1. Persons employed in the service of the Asylum will
learn that character, proper deportment, and faithfulness
to duty, will alone keep them in the situations in which
they are placed; and they should consider well, before entering
upon service, whether they are prepared to devote
all their time, talents, and efforts,... |
2. No one can justly take offense when respectfully
informed by the Superintendent, that his or her temperament
is better adapted to some other employment; and
those receiving such information should regard it as kindly
given, that they may have opportunity to avoid the unpleasantness
of being discharged. |
3. Those employed at the Asylum be expected to
hold themselves in readiness for duty when directed by its
officers; and the neglect of any labor, or duty, on the
ground that laboring hours are over, or to hesitate, after
proper direction, on such pretexts, will be regarded as evidence
against the fitness of the employe... |
5. All persons employed in the Asylum are required
to cultivate a calm and deliberate method of performing
their daily duties—carelessness and precipitation being
never more out of place than in an insane asylum. Loud
talking, hurrying up and down stairs, rude forms of address
to one another, and unsightly styles of dr... |
6. In the management of patients, unvarying kindness
must be strictly observed by all. When spoken to, mild,
pleasant and persuasive language must never give place to
authoritative expressions of any kind. All threats, taunts,
or other kinds of abuse in language, are expressly forbidden.
A blow, kick, or any other kind... |
7. Employees having charge of patients outside of the
wards, whether for labor or exercise, will be held responsible
for their safe return, unless, by the direction of an officer
they shall be transferred to the charge of some other
person; and when patients employed out of doors become
excited, they must be immediatel... |
8. It will be expected of all employed in or about the
Asylum, to check, as far as possible, all conversations or
allusions, on the part of patients, to subjects of an obscene
or improper nature, and remove, when in their power, false
impressions on their minds, respecting their confinement
or management; and any perso... |
10. The employees are not permitted to correspond
with the friends of patients; and all letters or packages to,
or from, patients, must pass through the hands of the Superintendent
or Assistant Physician. All making of dresses,
working of embroidery, or any mechanism, for the use
of employees, is prohibited, unless by ... |
12. No person will be employed in or about the Asylum
who is intemperate in habits, or who engages in gambling
or any other immoral or disreputable practice; and
as the patients are not allowed the use of tobacco, within
the Asylum, the employees are expected not to use it, in
any form, in their presence. |
14. The two departments of the Institution—male and
female—must always be separate to its employees, and no
person, whose post of duty is exclusively in the one, shall
ever be permitted to enter the other, unless some express
or proper occasion shall demand it; and any one who shall
discover, and not disclose, or who s... |
15. No employee will be permitted to appropriate to
his or her use any article belonging to the Asylum, or purchased
for the use of the patients, however small or comparatively
valueless it may be. From the salary of the person
so offending, the cost of the article will be deducted,
and he or she dismissed from service... |
3. He shall keep just, accurate and methodical accounts
of all articles received, and all articles purchased by
him, together with all distributions of supplies to the several
departments of the Institution—each and every day’s
accounts exhibiting, in detail, the number, quantity weight
or measurement, as the nature of... |
1. The Matron shall have charge of the female department
of the Asylum. It will be expected of her to be with
the female patients, in all the wards, as much as possible;
see that they are kindly treated; that their food is properly
cooked, served and distributed; that their apartments are
kept clean and in good order, ... |
2. The bedding, table linen, napkins, and drapery
furniture, carpets, table covers, and all similar property
of the female department, as well as the clothing of
the female patients, shall be under her general care and
supervision. She shall direct the employment and amusements
of all the inmates of the female wards; i... |
2. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep a correct
account of the patients received—entering, at the time of
their admission, in a book provided for the purpose, a condensed
copy of each commitment, with the facts set forth in
the certificate of the examining physicians accompanying
the same. He shall also note, in... |
1. The Supervisors shall have a general oversight of
the duties of the Attendants; they shall spend their time
chiefly in the wards, and they shall see that the rules prescribing
the duties of the Attendants, towards the patients,
are faithfully observed, that the patients are well treated,
and in all respects properly... |
3. Money, jewelry, or other valuables, shall be brought
to the office for safe keeping—except where their retention
by the patient is expressly permitted by the Superintendent
or Assistant Physician. On the discharge, or removal,
of a patient, the clothing in his or her possession, shall be
carefully compared with the ... |
4. The clothing belonging to the patients, in each division,
shall be deposited in a room, set apart for the purpose,
the key of which shall be in custody of the Supervisor,
and, at some particular hour of the day, the Supervisors
shall be in attendance in their respective clothing rooms,
to exchange, or supply, such c... |
5. The Supervisors shall have charge of the sewing
rooms, and when any patient is in want of new clothing the
fact shall be reported to the Supervisors, who will receive
instructions from the Superintendent in regard to its supply.
No clothing shall be purchased out of the Asylum, if
it can be manufactured in the sewin... |
1. Those employed in the wards in the care of the patients,
as their Attendants, should remember that their first
duty is to treat them with unvarying kindness, respect and
attention. Feelings of mutual good will, can, with few exceptions,
be successfully cultivated between Attendants and
those under their immediate ca... |
2. The first effort on the part of an Attendant, on receiving
a patient, should be to win his or her confidence,
however insensible the patient may be to kindly advances.
Patients generally enter the wards with the thorough conviction
that evil is intended them, and the first show of
harshness or force, however slight,... |
4. The muffs, sleeves, wristbands, or other means of
confinement, are never to be used unless by order of the
Superintendent or Assistant Physician; and the Attendant
shall never, under any circumstances, use greater force
than is sufficient to secure the patient, himself, or others,
from the efforts of his or her viol... |
5. During the evening, after patients have retired,
one Attendant or Assistant, shall always be present in each
ward, to discover any disturbance, and administer to any
necessity that may arise, and no Attendant shall ever leave
the ward in which he or she is engaged, without informing
an Assistant of his or her intend... |
7. Attendants, in this Institution, are considered the
companions, not “keepers,” of the patients, and, regarding
themselves as such, they shall strive to keep every one,
whose physical health will admit of it, engaged in some
kind of amusement or employment in labor, as designated,
from time to time, by the Superinten... |
8. The Attendants should see that the patients indulge
in no pernicious practices; those given to solitary habits
must receive special attention, and, as far as possible, induced
to participate in the pursuits and amusements of
others. Indolent patients should be led about the wards
and yards, and induced to join in ex... |
9. Attendants are forbidden to make walking out with
their patients a pretext for doing errands, or making calls
for themselves, and they must not go to town with the patients,
when the state of the roads and fields allow exercises
in other directions, and they must be especially vigilant
that patients, when out, do no... |
11. On Mondays and Thursdays the Attendants shall
collect all clothing designed for the wash, and deliver the
same, with lists thereof, to the Supervisors, at the assorting
rooms, and on Wednesdays and Saturdays they will assist
the Overseers of the laundry to assort the clothing, and
place the articles of each ward to... |
1. The Assistants will be employed with the Attendants
in the care of the patients, their rooms, clothing, etc.;
they will be under the immediate direction and control of
the Attendants; and they are expected to observe with
care the rules prescribed for the management of the patients,
and the government of the Asylum. |
3. At meals the Attendants shall always be present to
carve, to distribute the food, to see that each one has a
proper supply, and that they all take their meals in a proper
manner. Each shall be supplied with such liberal
allowance as the nature of the case may require, but all
waste, gluttony, or improper habits at t... |
3. He is expected to be kind, gentle and soothing in
his manners to the patients, and use every means in his
power to tranquilize those who are excited, and to allay
the fears and apprehensions of the timid; he will pay particular
attention to the sick, the suicidal, and those recently
admitted; will see that the patie... |
1. The time of service of the Porter commences and
ends in alternation with that of night watchman. Cleaning,
heating and lighting the front rooms of the centre
building belong to him; he shall see that the front windows
and doors are kept secured during the day, and that
visitors about the premises do not transgress t... |
2. He is expected to keep within the sound of the
office bell, unless absent on duty; he shall attend to all
messages, when required, and receive and conduct visitors—observing
toward all the utmost politeness and attention;
and he will be expected to perform such other duties as
may be required of him. |
1. The Gardener, with the aid of such patients as can
be taken out for that purpose, shall have the care of the
orchard, garden, and grounds around the Asylum and Physician’s
house; he shall have charge of the cultivation of
the vegetables, fruits and flowers, and he will be held
responsible for their safe keeping and ... |
2. He shall keep a pass-book, in which shall be entered
by the Steward, the number, weight or measurement of the
products of the garden and orchard, delivered from time
to time, to the Asylum and Physician’s house, together
with an accurate account of the time employed by the
patients in his department of labor, and he... |
1. The Carpenter, who is also Engineer, shall have
charge of the work-shop, tools, etc., belonging to his
department of labor; he shall, with his Assistants, who
will be subject to his direction, attend to the repairs, alterations,
and improvements made under the direction of the
Superintendent or Steward; he shall als... |
2. He shall keep a book in which shall be entered the
amount of lumber used, and the time employed by himself
and Assistants, together with the time employed by the
patients, upon each item of labor in his department; he
shall also keep, in the same book, the amount of fuel consumed,
and the running time of the engine ... |
1. The Overseers of the laundry will have charge of
the house and furniture of the laundry; they will be held
responsible for the safe-keeping of the clothing delivered
to them, until they shall be washed, ironed and returned,
in a suitable condition for immediate use, to the assorting
room, and placed in the charge of... |
1. The Farmer, under the direction and control of the
Steward, shall have under his immediate charge, the lands
used for farming purposes; the farming implements, the
horses, cattle, hogs, chickens and produce of the farm,
together with the hay, grain, straw, etc., purchased and
delivered at the Asylum. |
4. As the Farmer will be held responsible for the safe
keeping of all grain, hay, straw, bran, shorts, cattle, hogs,
horses, farming implements, or anything else connected
with the farm, the Steward will see that no such article is
left at the Asylum, unless received by himself in person,
or by the Farmer. |
5. The Farmer will be careful to confer often with the
Steward in reference to all matters pertaining to his charge,
give timely notice as to all his wants, and he will be
expected to be faithful and industrious in the use of every
means in his power, to render the farm productive and profitable
to the Asylum. |
1. The Library of the male department shall be under
the charge of the Supervisor. Every volume taken therefrom
shall be charged to the borrower, except for the use
of the patients, when it shall be charged to the Attendant,
into whose ward it is taken, who will be responsible for its
being used with ordinary care and ... |
There being no plays to be acted at the "Red Bull," because of the
Plague, and the players all cast adrift for want of employment, certain
of us, to wit, Jack Dawson and his daughter Moll, Ned Herring, and
myself, clubbed our monies together to buy a store of dresses, painted
cloths, and the like, with a cart and horse... |
We had designed to return to London as soon as the Plague abated, unless
we were favoured with extraordinary good fortune, and so, when we heard
that the sickness was certainly past, and the citizens recovering of
their panic, we (being by this time heartily sick of our venture, which
at the best gave us but beggarly r... |
At five o'clock the constable unlocked us from our vile confinement, and
I do believe we should have fallen upon him and done him a mischief for
his pains there and then, but that we were all frozen as stiff as stones
with sitting in the cold so long, and indeed it was some time ere we
could move our limbs at all. Howe... |
Coming at dusk to Edmonton, and finding a fine new inn there, called the
"Bell," Jack Dawson leads the cart into the yard, we following without a
word of demur, and, after putting up our trap, into the warm parlour we
go, and call for supper as boldly as you please. Then, when we had eaten
and drunk till we could no mo... |
The landlord went off, vowing he would take the law of us if he were not
paid by the morning; and we, as soon as we had shuffled on our clothes,
away to hunt for Ned, thinking that maybe he had made off with the money
to avoid paying half to the landlord, and hoping always that, though he
might play the rogue with him,... |
Accordingly, before the break of day, we were afoot, and after
noiselessly packing our effects in the cart in the misty grey light,
Jack Dawson goes in the stable to harness our nag, while I as silently
take down the heavy bar that fastened the yard gate. But while I was yet
fumbling at the bolts, and all of a shake fo... |
"Done," says Jack. "I'll show you that as quickly as you please." With
that he whips off his cap, and flinging it on the ground, cries: "Off
with your jacket, man, and let us prove by such means as Heaven has
given all which is the honester of us two." And so he squares himself up
to fight; but the innkeeper, though as... |
The very hint of this put us again in a quake, and now, the snow
beginning to fall pretty heavily, we went into the shed to cast about as
to what on earth we should do next. There we sat, glum and silent,
watching idly the big flakes of snow fluttering down from the leaden
sky, for not one of us could imagine a way out... |
And so we trudged out into the driving snow, that blinded us as we
walked, bow our heads as we might, and tried one alehouse after the
other, but all to no purpose, the parlours being empty because of the
early hour, and the snow keeping folks within doors; only, about midday,
some carters, who had pulled up at an inn,... |
I was taking a turn or two outside the shed,--for the sight of Jack
Dawson hugging poor Moll to his breast and trying to soothe her bodily
misery with gentle words was more than I could bear,--when a drawer
coming across from the inn told me that a gentleman in the Cherry room
would have us come to him. I gave him a ci... |
So in we go, and all sodden and bedrabbled as we were, went to follow
the drawer upstairs, when the landlady cried out she would not have us
go into her Cherry room in that pickle, to soil her best furniture and
disgrace her house, and bade the fellow carry us into the kitchen to
take off our cloaks and change our boot... |
He could tell us no more, so we stood there all together, wondering,
till presently the door opens, and a tall, lean gentleman enters, with a
high front, very finely dressed in linen stockings, a long-waisted coat,
and embroidered waistcoat, and rich lace at his cuffs and throat. He
wore no peruke, but his own hair, cu... |
He saluted us with a most noble bow, and dismissed the drawer with a
word in an undertone. Then turning again to us, he said: "I had the
pleasure of seeing you act last night, and dance," he adds with a slight
inclination of his head to Moll. "Naturally, I wish to be better
acquainted with you. Will it please you to di... |
The other bowed his head and set a chair at the end of the table for
Moll, which she took with a pretty curtsey, but saying never a word, for
glee did seem to choke us all. And being seated, she cast her eyes on
the bread hungrily, as if she would fain begin at once, but she had the
good manners to restrain herself. Th... |
And now, being fairly settled down to our repast, we said no more of any
moment that I can recall to mind till we had done (which was not until
nought remained of the pullets and the pasty but a few bones and the
bare dish), and we were drawn round the fire at Don Sanchez's
invitation. Then the drawers, having cleared ... |
Jack nods for an answer, and looking down on her face with pride and
tenderness, he put back with the stem of his pipe a little curl that had
strayed over her eyes. She was not amiss for looks thus, with her long
eyelashes lying like a fringe upon her cheeks, her lips open, showing
her good white teeth, and the glow of... |
This stilled us all for the moment, and then Don Sanchez, seeing that
these reflections threw a gloom upon us, turned to me, sitting next him,
and asked if I would give him some account of my history, whereupon I
briefly told him how three years ago Jack Dawson had lifted me out of
the mire, and how since then we had l... |
The Don nodded his satisfaction at this, and then Moll, awaking with the
sudden outburst of her father's voice, gives first a gape, then a
shiver, and looking about her with an air of wonder, smiles as her eye
fell on the Don. Whereon, still as solemn as any judge, he pulls the
bell, and the maid, coming to the room wi... |
She being gone, the Don calls for a second bowl of spiced wine, and we,
mightily pleased at the prospect of another half-hour of comfort,
stretch our legs out afresh before the fire. Then Don Sanchez, lighting
another cigarro, and setting his chair towards us, says as he takes his
knee up betwixt his long, thin fingers... |
We pulled our pipes from our mouths, Dawson and I, and stretched our
ears very eager to know what this business was the Don had to propound,
and he, after drawing two or three mouthfuls of smoke, which he expelled
through his nostrils in a most surprising unnatural manner, says in
excellent good English, but speaking m... |
"God forgive me," says Jack, humbly. And then we could say nothing, for
thinking what might befall Moll if we should be parted, but sat there
under the keen eye of Don Sanchez, looking helplessly into the fire. And
there was no sound until Jack's pipe, slipping from his hand, fell and
broke in pieces upon the hearth. T... |
Don Sanchez assented with a grave inclination of his head, and going to
the door opened it sharply, listened awhile, and then closing it softly,
returned and stood before us with folded arms. Then, in a low voice, not
to be heard beyond the room, he questioned us very particularly as to
our relations with other men, th... |
With that he opens the door and gives us our congee, the most noble in
the world; but not offering to give us a bed, we are forced to go out of
doors and grope our way through the snow to the cart-shed, and seek a
shelter there from the wind, which was all the keener and more bitter
for our leaving a good fire. And I b... |
Happily, the landlord, coming out with a lantern, and finding us by the
chattering of our teeth, was moved by the consideration shown us by Don
Sanchez to relax his severity; and so, unlocking the stable door, he
bade us get up into the loft, which we did, blessing him as if he had
been the best Christian in the world.... |
Then, as Jack and I are looking at each other ruefully in the face at
this dash to our knavish project, she bursts into a merry peal of
laughter, like a set of Christmas bells chiming, whereupon we, turning
about to find the cause of her merriment, she pulls another demure face,
and, slowly lifting her skirt, shows us ... |
A drizzly rain falling and turning the snow into slush, we kept under
the shelter of the shed, and this giving us scope for the reflection Don
Sanchez had counselled, my compunctions were greatly shaken by the
consideration of our present position and the prospect of worse. When I
thought of our breakfast that Moll had... |
About six comes back our Don on a fine horse, and receives our
salutations with a cool nod--we standing there of a row, looking our
sweetest, like hungry dogs in expectation of a bone. Then in he goes to
the house without a word, and now my worst fear was that he had thought
better of his offer and would abandon it. So... |
With a gesture of his hands, after saluting us with great dignity, Don
Sanchez bade us take our places at the table and with never a word of
question as to our decision; but that was scarce necessary, for it
needed no subtle observation to perceive that we would accept any
conditions to get our share of that roast pig.... |
She put it off as if she would have us take no notice of it, but it grew
worse and worse towards the end of the meal, and became a most horrid,
tearing cough, which she did so natural as to deceive us all and put us
in great concern, and especially Don Sanchez, who declared she must have
taken a cold by being exposed a... |
"'Tis nothing serious," replies Jack, who had doubtless received the
same hint from Moll she had given me. "I warrant she will be mended in a
day or so, with proper care. 'Tis a kind of family complaint. I am taken
that way at times," and with that he rasps his throat as a hint that he
would be none the worse for sleep... |
This was carrying the matter too far, and I thought it had certainly
undone us; for stopping short, with a start, in crossing the room, he
turns and looks first at Dawson, then at me, with anything but a
pleasant look in his eyes as finding his dignity hurt, to be thus
bustled by a mere child. Then his dark eyebrows un... |
So we up presently to a good snug room with a bed to each of us fit for
a prince. And there, with the blankets drawn up to our ears, we fell
blessing our stars that we were now fairly out of our straits, and after
that to discussing whether we should consult Moll's inclination to this
business. First, Dawson was for te... |
In the morning we found the Don just as kind to us as the day before he
had been careless, and so made us eat breakfast with him, to our great
content. Also, he sent a maid up to Moll to enquire of her health, and
if she could eat anything from our table, to which the baggage sends
reply that she feels a little easier ... |
About eight o'clock three saddle nags were brought to the door, and we,
mounting, set out for London, where we arrived about ten, the roads
being fairly passable save in the marshy parts about Shoreditch, where
the mire was knee-deep; so to Gracious Street, and there leaving our
nags at the Turk inn, we walked down to ... |
Thus primed, we went presently to the sitting-room above, and the drawer
shortly after coming to say that two gentlemen desired to see Don
Sanchez, Jack and I seated ourselves side by side at a becoming distance
from the Don, holding our hats on our knees as humbly as may be. Then in
comes a rude, dirty fellow with a p... |
"By good fortune the mother and daughter were bought by Sidi ben Moula,
a rich old merchant who was smitten by the pretty, delicate looks of
Judith, whom he thenceforth treated as if she had been his own child. In
this condition they lived with greater happiness than falls to the lot
of most slaves, until the beginning... |
Mr. Hopkins took the first sheet from me and read it aloud. It was
addressed to Mr. Richard Godwin, Hurst Court, Chislehurst in Kent, and
after giving such particulars of her past as we had already heard from
Don Sanchez, she writes thus: "And now, my dear nephew, as I doubt not
you (as the nearest of my kindred to my ... |
Then presently, with an indifferent, careless air, as if 'twas nought,
he gives us a purse and bids us go out in the town to furnish ourselves
with what disguise was necessary to our purpose. Therewith Dawson gets
him some seaman's old clothes at a Jew's, and I a very neat, presentable
suit of cloth, etc., and the rest... |
Next morning off we go betimes, Jack more like Robert Evans than his
mother's son, and I a most seeming substantial man (so that the very
stable lad took off his hat to me), and on very good horses a long ride
to Chislehurst And there coming to a monstrous fine park, Don Sanchez
stayed us before the gates, and bidding ... |
Hence, at no great distance we reach a square plain house, the windows
all barred with stout iron, and the most like a prison I did ever see.
Here Don Sanchez ringing a bell, a little grating in the door is opened,
and after some parley we are admitted by a sturdy fellow carrying a
cudgel in his hand. So we into a cold... |
"Praise the Lord, Peter," says the steward. Whereupon the sturdy fellow
with the cudgel fell upon his knees, as likewise did Simon, and both in
a snuffling voice render thanks to Heaven in words which I do not think
it proper to write here. Then, being done, they get up, and the steward,
having dried his eyes, says: |
In this manner did Simon halt betwixt two ways like one distracted, but
only he did mingle a mass of sacred words with his arguments which
seemed to me nought but profanity, his sole concern being the gain of
money. Then he falls to the old excuses Don Sanchez had told us of,
saying he had no money of his own, and offe... |
"I cannot do that, sir," says I, "without an assurance that Mrs.
Godwin's estate will bear this charge."
With wondrous alacrity Simon fetches a book with a plan of the estate,
whereby he showed us that not a holding on the estate was untenanted,
not a single tenant in arrear with his rent, and that the value of the
pr... |
But this Simon stoutly refused to do, saying his conscience would not
allow him to sign any bond (clearly with the hope that he might in the
end shuffle out of paying anything at all), until Don Sanchez, losing
patience, declared he would certainly hunt all London through to find
that Mr. Richard Godwin, who was the ne... |
This put the steward to a new taking; but the Don holding firm, he at
length agreed to give us this note, upon Don Sanchez writing another
affirming that he had seen Mrs. Godwin and her daughter in Barbary, and
was going forth to fetch them, that should Mr. Richard Godwin come to
claim the estate he might be justly put... |
And so this business ended to our great satisfaction, we saying to
ourselves that we had done all that man could to redeem the captives,
and that it would be no harm at all to put a cheat upon the miserly
steward. Whether we were any way more honest than he in shaping our
conduct according to our inclinations is a ques... |
With this he rings the bell for our reckoning, and so ends our
discussion, neither Dawson nor I having a word to say in answer to this
last hit, which showed us pretty plainly that in reaching round with her
long leg for our shins, Moll had caught the Don's shanks a kick that
night she was seized with a cough. |
So to horse again and a long jog back to Greenwich, where Dawson and I
would fain have rested the night (being unused to the saddle and very
raw with our journey), but the Don would not for prudence, and
therefore, after changing our clothes, we make a shift to mount once
more, and thence another long horrid jolt to Ed... |
Coming to the Bell (more dead than alive) about eight, and pitch dark,
we were greatly surprised that we could make no one hear to take our
horses, and further, having turned the brutes into the stable ourselves,
to find never a soul in the common room or parlour, so that the place
seemed quite forsaken. But hearing a ... |
We learnt afterwards that Moll, who could never rest still two minutes
together, but must for ever be a-doing something new, had cut out her
images and devised the show to entertain the servants in the kitchen,
and that the guests above hearing their merriment had come down in time
to get the fag end, which pleased the... |
"This may undo us," says Don Sanchez, in a low voice of displeasure,
drawing us away. "Here are a dozen visitors who will presently be
examining Moll as a marvel. Who can say but that one of them may know
her again hereafter to our confusion? We must be seen together no more
than is necessary, until we are out of this ... |
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