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BARNABY RUDGE - A TALE OF THE RIOTS OF 'EIGHTY by Charles ...

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great heat.'Do you call this order?''Nothing like it, captain,' answered Hugh, still holding her backwith his outstretched hand. 'It's against all orders. Ladies arecarrying off our gallant soldiers from their duty. The word ofcommand, captain! They're filing off the ground. Quick!''Close!' cried Simon, with the whole power of his lungs.March!''Form!She was thrown to the ground; the whole field was in motion;Barna<strong>by</strong> was whirled away into the heart of a dense mass of men, andshe saw him no more.Chapter 49The mob had been divided from its first assemblage into fourdivisions; the London, the Westminster, the Southwark, and theScotch. Each of these divisions being subdivided into variousbodies, and these bodies being drawn up in various forms andfigures, the general arrangement was, except to the few chiefs andleaders, as unintelligible as the plan of a great battle to themeanest soldier in the field. It was not without its method,however; for, in a very short space of time after being put inmotion, the crowd had resolved itself into three great parties, andwere prepared, as had been arranged, to cross the river <strong>by</strong>different bridges, and make for the House of Commons in separatedetachments.At the head of that division which had Westminster Bridge for itsapproach to the scene of action, Lord George Gordon took his post;with Gashford at his right hand, and sundry ruffians, of mostunpromising appearance, forming a kind of staff about him. The

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