Philip,' he said, coming nearer to his 'head young man,' 'keep Nicholas and Henry at work in the ware-room upstairs until this riot be over, for it would grieve me if they were misled into violence.' Philip hesitated.
'Speak out, man! Always ease an uneasy heart, and never let it get hidebound.' 'I had thought to convoy my cousin and the other young woman home, for the town is like to be rough, and it's getting dark.' 'And thou shalt, my lad,' said the good old man; 'and I myself will try and restrain the natural inclinations of Nicholas and Henry.' But when he went to find the shop-boys with a gentle homily on his lips, those to whom it should have been addressed were absent.

In consequence of the riotous state of things, all the other shops in the market-place had put their shutters up; and Nicholas and Henry, in the absence of their superiors, had followed the example of their neighbours, and, as business was over, they had hardly waited to put the goods away, but had hurried off to help their townsmen in any struggle that might ensue.
There was no remedy for it, but Mr.John looked rather discomfited.
The state of the counters, and of the disarranged goods, was such also as would have irritated any man as orderly but less sweet-tempered.

All he said on the subject was: 'The old Adam! the old Adam!' but he shook his head long after he had finished speaking.
'Where is William Coulson ?' he next asked.

'Oh! I remember.

He was not to come back from York till the night closed in.' Philip and his master arranged the shop in the exact order the old man loved.