One of those two who were picked up in the street, being near me,
and telling me his case, I stepped to the Major, and told him that
this man was not at the meeting, but was taken up in the street; and
showed him how hard and unjust a thing it would be to put him into
prison.
I had not pleased him before in the question I had put to him about
a massacre, and that, I suppose, made this solicitation less
acceptable to him from me than it might have been from some other;
for looking sternly on me, he said: "Who are you, that take so much
upon you? Seeing you are so busy, you shall be the first man that
shall go into Bridewell;" and taking me by the shoulders, he thrust
me in.
As soon as I was in, the porter, pointing with his finger, directed
me to a fair pair of stairs on the farther side of a large court,
and bid me go up those stairs and go on till I could go no farther.
Accordingly I went up the stairs; the first flight whereof brought
me to a fair chapel on my left hand, which I could look into through
the iron grates, but could not have gone into if I would.
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