Her mind wandered back to that fateful day. Next to the receiver was a gang of housebreakers, laughing over their exploits, and planning fresh depredations; and next to the housebreakers came two gallant-looking gentlemen in long periwigs and riding-dresses, and equipped in all other respects for the road, with a roast fowl and a bottle of wine before them. Some Chinaman might take it into his head to shout: "Death to the foreign devils!" And out of that wall yonder would boil battle and murder and sudden death. But this was but a momentary gleam of personal application, and at this time she followed it up no further. People ran out of their shops to join the pursuit; and, by the time Wild had got into Field-lane, he had a troop of fifty persons at his heels —all eager to assist in the capture. And we are not traders looking at equivalents. What a mercy that the blow aimed at her by the ruffian, Wild, though it brought her to the brink of the grave, should have restored her to reason! Ah! she stirs. And I passed myself off as Meysey Hill, and since—then—I haven’t had a minute’s peace. Even after this woman had gone, it seemed to Ruth that the room was kindlier than it had ever been.
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