. Bit priggish, isn’t it?
And if he only knew it—so absurd. While this was effected, intelligence was brought that a formidable mob was
pouring down Field Lane, the end of which was barricaded. Saws,
hammers, planes, axes, augers, adzes, chisels, gimblets, and an endless variety of
tools were ranged, like a stand of martial weapons at an armoury, in racks
against the walls. ’
Chapter Three
Captain Hilary Roding listened with only half an ear to the long-winded report
being given by Sergeant Trodger, his idle gaze wandering over the congested
traffic of Piccadilly and the many pedestrians weaving a hazardous path through
it. ’
‘Gammon!’ burst from the captain, who had just tossed off a glass of Madeira. You need not be afraid. Ennison’s acquaintance. "
The carpenter, upon whom no part of this hurried dialogue had been lost, now
made his appearance, and having obtained from Terence all the information
which that personage could impart respecting the perilous situation of Thames,
he declared himself ready to start to Saint Giles's at once, and ran back to the
room for his hat and stick; expressing his firm determination, as he pocketed his
constable's staff with which he thought it expedient to arm himself, of being
direfully revenged upon the thief-taker: a determination in which he was
strongly encouraged by his wife. “I am sorry,” he said slowly. The militia offered little in the way of relief. “The fact of it is, and this absurd project of yours only brings it to a head, you
have begun to get hold of some very queer ideas about what a young lady in
your position may or may not venture to do.
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