In the previous installment, Mr. Haredale and the vintner got a surprise, and Barnaby saw a terrible sight.
Interesting observation about the debtors who were let out of prison to try to avert the wrath of the rioters, from the future author of David Copperfield and Little Dorrit:
"There were some broken men among those debtors who had been in jail so long, and were so miserable and destitute of friends, so dead to the world, and utterly forgotten and uncared for, that they implored their jailers not to set them free, and to send them, if need were, to some other place of custody. But they, refusing to comply, lest they should incur the anger of mob, turned them into the streets, where they wandered up and down hardly remembering the ways untrodden by their feet so long, and crying — such abject things those rotten-hearted jails had made them — as they slunk off in their rags, and dragged their slipshod feet along the pavement." (Chapter 67)
This week, read chapters 69 and 70.
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