fainted and had fainted again he had had little food during the day and had been two of the group were but only one of them knew the other being a magistrate not resident in the one who knew was mr john johnson whose zeal for the public peace had brought him from when he heard that the soldiers were summoned i know this man very well said mr johnson he is a dangerous character � quite it was a weary night and the next day whose wound was declared trivial was lodged in jail he was committed on three counts � a for having committed was dead from and for having led a on a dwelling house four other men were committed one of them for possessing himself of a gold cup with the arms on it the three others one of whom was the for riot and assault that morning town was no longer in terror but it was in much sadness other men more innocent than the hat d were groaning under severe bodily injuries and poor s corpse was not the only one that had been lifted from the pavement it is true that none grieved much for the other dead man unless it be grief to say old fellow he had been trampled upon doubtless where he fell near the entrance of the seven stars this second corpse was the bill otherwise thomas the last of a very old family line the radical chapter the fields are with december s frost i too am with the of age bat through the fields and through the woods is rest and stillness � only in my heart the pall of winter a throbbing life a week after that riot was at court he had returned from a hasty visit to town to keep his christmas at this delightful country home not in the best christmas spirits he had lost the election but if that had been his only annoyance he had good humor and good sense enough to have borne it as well as most men and to have paid th eight or nine thousand which had been the price of that he was not to sit in the next parliament without useless grumbling but the disappointments of life can never any more than its pleasures be estimated singly and the and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various each the effect of the other which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and unaccountable of the morbid and disagreeable might not have grieved much at a small riot in even if it had caused some expenses to fall on the county but the turn which the riot had actually taken was a bitter morsel for on more grounds than one however the had arisen and been and probably no one knew the whole truth on these points � the conspicuous incidents had all tended to throw the blame on the radical party that is to s on and on s agents and so far the and its results had done in the county precisely the opposite effect to that which was a q i dear object of his ambition more than this s conscience was active enough to be very affected by what had befallen his memory always good was particularly vivid in its of s complaint to him about the treating of the men and of the subsequent scene in s office when the personage with the name of johnson had to him the impossibility of an scheme once begun and of turning your vehicle back when it had already begun to roll down hill remembering s words of indignant warning about men with drink in them to make a noise could not resist the urgent impression that the for which was committed were not brought about by any willing co operation of his with the s but arising probably from some ill judged efforts to their violence and this impression which insisted on growing into a conviction became in one of its phases an uneasy sense that he held evidence which would at once tend to and to place himself and his agents in any thing but a desirable light it was likely that some one else could give equivalent evidence in favor of � the little preacher for example but anyhow the affair with the men would be open and made the worst of by the opposite parties the man who has failed in the use of some is helped very little by the fact that his rivals are men to whom that is a something human very far from being alien there remains this grand distinction that he has failed and that the jet of light is thrown entirely on his in this matter felt himself a victim could he hinder the tricks of his agents in this particular case he had i to hinder them and had tried in vain he had not loved the two agents in question to begin with and now at this later stage of events he was more innocent than ever of bearing any thing but the most sincere the radical ill will he was more utterly exasperated with them than he would probably have been if his one great passion had been for public virtue with his john johnson had added this ugly dirty business of the election to all the long list of which was resolved to visit on him to the utmost he had seen some carrying the that there was a to on the part of the if any such notions existed apart from there was fell the reason for letting the world see severely punished for his power over the family affairs and with the family property and the world certainly should see this with as little delay as possible the cool confident assuming fellow should be to the last drop in compensation and all 