The bells of some of the churches, were then ringing; the sound of them did not strike me, till I had turned the corner before mentioned, when it came upon me at once.

It filled me, almost directly, with a melancholy for which I could not account.

I began now to tremble, for the first time, at the arduous task I had undertaken, of attempting to subvert one of the branches of the commerce of the great place which was then before me.

I began to think of the host of people I should have to encounter in it.

I anticipated much persecution in it also; and I questioned whether I should even get out of it alive.