The age had not so much refinement , that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of petticoat and farthingale from stepping forth into the public ways , and wedging their not unsubstantial persons , if occasion were , into the throng nearest to the scaffold at an execution 那年月没有那么多文明讲究,身着衬裙和撑裙的女人们公然出入于大庭广众之中,只要有可能,便要撅动姻们那并不娇弱的躯体,挤进最靠近刑台的人群中去,也不会缎入什么不成体统的感觉。