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. "Hear the letter," said Ireton, breaking the seal. " The stranger was for a moment lost in reflection. ’ ‘Have no fear. Set on unravelling her secrets, Gerald pursues every possible clue—much to the indignation of Mademoiselle. The girl only smiled at him serenely, but she laid her hand for a moment quietly upon his. Then perhaps it is Prudence?’ ‘Oh la la! That is not me at all. If she returns to the house from which we took her, her companions will laugh at her and smother her with ridicule. ’ The captain shook his head. He had died before they married, and when her brother became a widower she had come to his assistance and taken over much of the care of his youngest daughter. I have made her an honourable proposal of marriage, in compliance with the request of her lamented parent, whose memory—" "Dare to utter that falsehood in my hearing again, scoundrel," interrupted Thames fiercely, "and I will put it out of your power to repeat the offence. To have you is all important. As she went on, the story began to sound more and more like a recitation. You see, the trouble is that the matter is in dispute.
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