. Master Humphrey's clock . worked off like a liriton 1 Damme, if I know which party to BARNABY RUDGE. 343 side with. Youro as bad as the other. Whats to become of the country ifthe miUtary powers to go a superseding the ciwihans in this way ? Wheresthis poor fellow-creeturs rights as a citizen, that he didnt have me in his lastmoments ! I was here. I was wiUing. I was ready. These are nice times,brother, to have the dead crying out against us in this way, and sleep comfort-ably in our beds arterwards; wery nice ! Whether he derived any material consolation from binding the prisoners, isuncert
. Master Humphrey's clock . worked off like a liriton 1 Damme, if I know which party to BARNABY RUDGE. 343 side with. Youro as bad as the other. Whats to become of the country ifthe miUtary powers to go a superseding the ciwihans in this way ? Wheresthis poor fellow-creeturs rights as a citizen, that he didnt have me in his lastmoments ! I was here. I was wiUing. I was ready. These are nice times,brother, to have the dead crying out against us in this way, and sleep comfort-ably in our beds arterwards; wery nice ! Whether he derived any material consolation from binding the prisoners, isuncertain ; most probably he did. At all events his being summoned to thatwork, diverted him, for the time, from these painful reflections, and gave histhoughts a more congenial occupation. They were not all three carried off together, but in two parties ; Barnaby andhis father, going by one road in the centre of a body of foot; and Hugh, fast boundupon a horse, and strongly guarded by a troop of cavalry, being taken by The\ had no opportunity for the least communication, in the short intervalwhich preceded their departure ; being kept strictly apart. Hugh onlyobserved that Barnaby walked with a drooping head among his guard, and,without raising his eyes, that he tried to wave his fettered hand when he himself, he buoyed up his courage as he rode along, with the assurancethat the mob would force his jail wherever it might be, and set him at when they got into London, and more especially into Fleet Market,lately the stronghold of the rioters, where the military were rooting out thelast remnant of the crowd, he saw that this hope was gone, and felt that he was riding to his death. S44) MASTER HUMPiiREYS CLOCK. CHAPTER THE SEVENTIETH. Mr. Dennis having despatched this piece of business without any personalhurt or inconvenience, and having now retired into the tranquil respectabilityof private life, resolved to solace himself with half an hour or so of fe
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