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"I will bear testimony to your vigilance and courage," returned Pillichody; "but you had better go and alarm your master, I will wait here." "Instantly I-instantly!" cried Blaize, rushing upstairs. On the way to Mr. Bloundel's chamber, he met Patience, and told her what he had heard.
"I have not been able to find a clergyman," said the old woman, "but I have brought a devout man who is willing to pray with you." "Ah!" exclaimed the enthusiast, starting as he beheld Amabel. "Can it be Mr. Bloundel's daughter?" "It is," returned Amabel with a groan. "Leave us, my good woman," she added to Mrs. Batley, "I have something to impart to Solomon Eagle which is for his ear alone."
On the day following the events last related, as Leonard Holt was standing at the door of the shop, his master having just been called out by some important business, a man in the dress of a watchman, with a halberd in his hand, approached him, and inquired if he was Mr. Bloundel's apprentice.
It was full ten o'clock before Leonard could obtain permission to quit the king's party, and he immediately hurried to Wood-street. He had scarcely entered it, when the cry of "fire" smote his ears, and rushing forward in an agony of apprehension, he beheld Mr. Bloundel's dwelling in flames.
Bloundel's request, he went in search of assistance, and presently afterwards returned with a posse of men, bearing halberds and lanterns, who carried off the wounded man, and afterwards started in pursuit of the murderer. Mr.
And perceiving that the apprentice was greatly moved, he waited for a moment till he had recovered himself, and then, motioning him to follow him, they quitted the house together. On reaching Mr. Bloundel's habitation, Leonard pulled the cord in the hutch, and the grocer appeared at the window.
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