For the first time for six months, the imprisoned family looked forth on the external world, and were dazzled and bewildered by the sight.

The grocer himself, despite his sober judgment, could scarcely believe he had not been in a trance during the whole period.
The shop was scarcely opened before it was filled with customers, and Leonard and Stephen were instantly employed.

But the grocer would sell nothing.

To those who asked for any article he possessed, he presented them with it, but would receive no payment.
He next dispatched Blaize to bring together all the poor he could find, and distributed among them the remainder of his store--his casks of flour, his salted meat, his cheeses, his biscuits, his wine--in short, all that was left.
"This I give," he said, "as a thanksgiving to the Lord, and as a humble testimony of gratitude for my signal deliverance." II.
THE MIDNIGHT MEETING.
The first day of his deliverance being spent by the grocer in the praiseworthy manner before related, he laid his head upon his pillow with a feeling of satisfaction such as he had not for months experienced.

A very remarkable dream occurred to him that night, and its recollection afterwards afforded him the greatest consolation.