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Miss Pen and Her Niece; Or, the Old Maid and the Young One
Miss Pen and Her Niece Or the Old Maid and the Young One Author:Elizabeth Stone General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Clubs, bills, and partizans! Strike ! beat them down! Down with the Capulets ! Down with the Montagues ! SHAKSPEAKE. It is hardly possible to describe the clamour and confusion which greeted the sight of Mr. Granville as, after considerable manoeuvring, he made his escape from the Hall. There had been confusion enough in the interior; partly caused by the excitement of the proceedings, but most especially by that eagerness of retreat, which characterizes the breaking up of any assembly, when it is to all appearances a matter of vital moment that those who have been waiting patiently six, eight, ten hours, should not lengthen their stay by so many minutes, althoughtheir exit be accomplished only at the risk of life or limb. The anxiety, great as it has been to obtain entrance, was nothing to that now shown in retreat, and many had cause in a lamed joint or broken limb to rue for sorrowful years, their mad impetuosity on that day. And as is ever the case, some of the most retiring and peaceable of the assemblage became sufferers from the eagerness of others, without fault of their own. Being happily placed for retreat, and having besides none other dependant on his care to clog his freedom of action, Granville effected his exit just as a shout arose which seemed to rend the very air, and he saw every look turned toward a smaller entrance of the Hall, and every person apparently tending thitherward, though any very near approach to it was rendered utterly impossible, as the crowd was already jammed almost to suffocation, and for neither love nor money would any one retreat an inch from th...« less