So the authorities were quite justified in the decided steps they had taken, both in their own estimation then, and now, in ours, looking back on the affair in cold blood.

But at the time feeling ran strongly against them; and all means of expressing itself in action being prevented, men brooded sullenly in their own houses.

Philip, as the representative of the family, the head of which was now suffering for his deeds in the popular cause, would have met with more sympathy, ay, and more respect than he imagined, as he went along the streets, glancing from side to side, fearful of meeting some who would shy him as the relation of one who had been ignominiously taken to Bridewell a few hours before.

But in spite of this wincing of Philip's from observation and remark, he never dreamed of acting otherwise than as became a brave true friend.

And this he did, and would have done, from a natural faithfulness and constancy of disposition, without any special regard for Sylvia.
He knew his services were needed in the shop; business which he had left at a moment's warning awaited him, unfinished; but at this time he could not bear the torture of giving explanations, and alleging reasons to the languid intelligence and slow sympathies of Coulson.
He went to the offices of Mr.Donkin, the oldest established and most respected attorney in Monkshaven--he who had been employed to draw up the law papers and deeds of partnership consequent on Hepburn and Coulson succeeding to the shop of John and Jeremiah Foster, Brothers.
Mr.Donkin knew Philip from this circumstance.