The audience was made up of parents, teachers, and a
few other curious folks from town, all sitting hushed in
anticipatory silence as the school orchestra assembled
onstage. ” Lucy replied. ” Michelle fired back merrily. Rattles were sprung; lanterns lighted,
and hoisted at the end of poles; windows thrown open; doors unbarred; and, as if
by magic, the street was instantaneously filled with a crowd of persons of both
sexes, armed with such weapons as came most readily to hand, and dressed in
such garments as could be most easily slipped on. Some of my
schemes are already in hand. Of this man Kneebone resolved to go in pursuit; and
leaving Jack in charge of the constable, he proceeded to the small inn,—which
bore then, as it bears now, the name of the Six Bells,—where, summoning the
hostler, his steed was instantly brought him, and, springing on its back, he rode
away at full speed. It was also cold, and dark,
for there had been no time to light the lantern. “You silly fool,” he said. That any
human being could conceive and execute such a thing! A Roundhead, here in
these prosaic times!—and mad as a hatter! Trying the rôle of St. Wild," said the turnkey, trembling in every joint. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days.
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