windows; and now the garden was full of people. The house was besieged
back and front; and, in ten minutes from the entrance of this first
stone, not a pane of glass was left unbroken in any of the lower
windows. Hope ran out, his spirit thoroughly roused by these insults;
and he was the first to seize and detain one of the offenders; but the
feat was rather too dangerous to bear repetition. He was recognised,
surrounded, and had some heavy blows inflicted upon him. He succeeded
in bringing off his man; but it was by the help of a sally of his
friends from the house; and having locked up his prisoner in his
dressing-room, he found it best to await the arrival of a magistrate
before he went forth again.

The surgery was the most open to attack; and this being the place where
the people expected to find the greatest number of dead bodies, their
energies were directed towards the professional part of the premises.
The pupil took flight, and left the intruders to work their pleasure.
They found no bodies, and were angry accordingly. When the crashing of
all the glass was over, the shelves and cases were torn down, and, with
the table and chairs, carried out into the street, and cast into a heap.
Other wood was brought; and it was owing to the pertinacity of the mob
in front of the house, in attacking the shutters, that the rioters met
with no opposition in the surgery. Hope, Enderby, and their assistants,
had more on their hands than they could well manage, in beating off the
assailants in front. If the shutters were destroyed, the whole
furniture of the house would go, and no protection would remain to
anybody in it. The surgery must be left to take its chance, rather than
this barrier between the women and the mob be thrown down. Whatever
offensive warfare was offered from the house was from the servants, from
the upper window. The women poured down a quick succession of pails of
water; and Charles returned, with good aim, such stones as had found
their way in. The gentlemen were little aware, for some time, that the
cries of vexation or ridicule, which were uttered now and then, were
caused by the feats of their own coadjutors overhead: and it was in
consequence of seeing Hester and Margaret laughing in the midst of their
panic that the fact became known to them.

Soon after, a bright light was visible between the crevices of the
shutters, and a prodigious shout arose outside. The bonfire was
kindled. Heste