Once a thriving
town before the Pestilence, most of the buildings and the
piers had been destroyed or burned. "On that night,—in this room,—in your presence, Blueskin,—
in yours Mr. A stomacher, fastened by imitationdiamond buckles, girded that part of her person, which should have been a waist;
a coral necklace encircled her throat, and a few black patches, or mouches, as
they were termed, served as a foil to the bloom of her cheek and chin. 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. Voilà tout, as Melusine herself
would say. ”
She shrugged her shoulders. You have
made enough sacrifices for her surely without this.
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