CHAPTER XIII. He stopped us, and, addressing Jack in a taunting tone, said, 'Well, I've been as good as my word!'—'True,' replied Sheppard; 'and I'll be as good as mine!' And so they parted. 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. ‘As to that, I am a devil, say the nuns. He—” “Here they are!” said Ann Veronica as the bell sounded. Can’t ask the gent to go abroad and condone a bigamy. “Enter Sir John, very honest, very much in love with me. She thought of Capes. . Ann Veronica looked bright and a little elated, and she disregarded her father’s invitation to be seated. She was dressed in a little white frock, with a very long body, and very short sleeves, which looked (from a certain fullness about the hips,) as if it was intended to be worn with a hoop.
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