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. But then, because my papa had no money, you understand, he sent me to a convent. “MY DEAR MISS PELLISSIER,— “To-morrow the six months will be up. ” “But does it correspond with the facts of the case? You know, Mr. He whispered in her ear. Presently he began to weave a tale, sorry enough, with all the ancient claptraps and rusted platitudes. I'll put you aboard The Tigress to-morrow after sundown. You certainly had to hand it to these Chinks. Not a star could be discerned, but, in their stead, streaks of lurid radiance, whence proceeding it was impossible to determine, shot ever and anon athwart the dusky vault, and added to the ominous and threatening appearance of the night.
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