"
The elderly domestic bowed, took up the case, and retired. Sheppard's attention; and no sooner did
she in some degree recover from the shock occasioned by the sight of her son's
debased condition, than, regardless of any other consideration except his instant
removal from the contaminating society by which he was surrounded, and utterly
forgetting the more cautious plan she meant to have adopted, she rushed into the
room, and summoned him to follow her. "It's wretched enough, indeed, Sir," rejoined the widow; "but, poor as it is, it's
better than the cold stones and open streets. At length, however, by dealing blows right and left with their swords, and even
inflicting severe cuts on the foremost of the rabble, the soldiers managed to gain
a clear course, and to drive back the assailants; who, as they retreated behind the
barricades, shouted in tones of defiance, "To Tyburn! to Tyburn!"
The object of all this tumult, meanwhile, never altered his position, but sat back
in the cart, as if resolved not to make even a struggle to regain his liberty. Spurling was no longer allowed to visit him; he was again loaded with irons;
fastened by an enormous horse-padlock to a staple in the floor; and only allowed
to take repose in a chair.
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