"Ay, And They Are All Damned To All
Eternity!" Said His Companion, As Coolly And As Confidently As If At
That Moment He Had Seen Them Burning In The Bottomless Pit.
We now frequently took up fresh passengers, who only rode a short
distance with us, and then got out again.
Among others was a woman
from London, whose business was the making of brandy. She
entertained us with a very circumstantial narrative of all the
shocking scenes during the late riot in that city. What
particularly struck me was her saying that she saw a man, opposite
to her house, who was so furious, that he stood on the wall of a
house that was already half burnt down, and there, like a demon,
with his own hands pulled down and tossed about the bricks which the
fire had spared, till at length he was shot, and fell back among the
flames.
At length we arrived at London without any accident, in a hard rain,
about one o'clock. I had been obliged to pay sixteen shillings
beforehand at Northampton, for the sixty miles to London. This the
coachman seemed not to know for certain, and therefore asked me more
earnestly if I was sure I had paid: I assured him I had, and he
took my word.
I looked like a crazy creature when I arrived in London;
notwithstanding which, Mr. Pointer, with whom I left my trunk,
received me in the most friendly manner, and desired me during
dinner to relate to him my adventures.
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