with the idea that he was among the most virtuous and disinterested heroes in the world � and laughed again i hear he said smoothly as he stood among them with a great measure of liquor in his hand and filled their glasses as quickly and as often as they chose i hear � but i cannot say whether it be true or � that the men who are in the streets to night are half disposed to down a chapel or two and that they only want leaders i even heard mention of those in duke street s inn fields and in street golden square but common report you know � you are not going � to do nothing master eh cried no and for and me they must be frightened out of that leaders are wanted are they now boys a most impetuous cried secretary ha ha a courageous boisterous most vehement fellow a man who � there was no need to finish the sentence for they had rushed out of the house and were far beyond hearing he stopped in the middle of a laugh listened drew on his gloves and clasping his hands behind him paced the deserted room for a long time then bent his steps towards the busy town and walked into the streets they were filled with people for the rumour of that day s proceedings had made a great noise those persons who did not care to leave home were at their doors or windows and one topic of discourse prevailed on every side some reported that the were put down others that they had broken out again some said that lord george had been sent under a strong guard to the tower others that an attempt had been made upon the king s life that the soldiers had been again called out and that the noise of in a distant part of the town had been plainly heard within an hour as it grew darker these stories became more and mysterious and often when some frightened passenger ran past with tidings that the were not far off and were coming up ie doors were shut and barred lower windows made secure and as much consternation as if the city were invaded by a foreign army walked stealthily about listening to au he heard and or whenever he had an opportunity such false intelligence as suited his own purpose and busily occupied in this way turned into for the twentieth time when a great many women and children came flying along the street � often panting and looking back � and the confused murmur of numerous voices struck upon his ear assured by these tokens and by the red light began to flash upon the houses on either side that some of his friends were indeed approaching he begged a moment s shelter at a door which opened as he passed and running with some d other persons to an upper window looked out upon the crowd they had among them and the chief faces were distinctly visible that they had been engaged in the destruction of some building was sufficiently apparent and that it was a catholic place of worship was evident from the spoils they bore as which were for the of priests and rich fragments of altar furniture covered with and dirt and dust and lime their garments torn to rags their hair hanging wildly about them their hands and faces jagged and bleeding with the wounds of rusty nails and hurried on before them au hke hideous them the dense throng came fighting on some singing some shouting in triumph some quarrelling among themselves some menacing the spectators as they passed some with great wooden fragments on which they spent their rage as if they had been alive them limb from limb and the scattered high into the air some in a drunken state unconscious of the hurts they had received from falling bricks and stones and beams one borne upon a in the very midst covered with a dingy cloth a senseless ghastly heap thus � a vision of coarse faces with here and there a blot of smoky light a dream of demon heads and savage eyes and sticks and iron bars uplifted in the air and whirled about a bewildering horror in which so much was seen and yet so little which seemed so long and yet so short in which there were so many not to be forgotten all through life and yet so many things that could not be observed in me glimpse � it flitted onward and was gone as it passed away upon its work of wrath and ruin a piercing scream was heard a knot of persons ran towards the spot who just then emerged into the street among them he was on outskirts of the little and could not see or hear what passed within but one who had a better place informed him that a widow woman had her son among the is that all said the secretary turning his face well i think this looks a little more like business chapter li � � � as were to s view and much like business as they looked they extended that night no farther the soldiers were again called out again they took half a dozen prisoners and again the crowd dispersed after a short and hot and drunken though they were they had not yet broken au bounds and set au law and government at defiance something of their habitual deference to the authority erected by society for its own preservation yet remained among them and had its majesty been in time the secretary would have had to a bitter disappointment by midnight the streets were clear and quiet and that there stood in two parts of the town a heap of nodding walls and pile of rubbish where there had been at sunset a rich and 