Where was Hugh! 'Here!' he hoarsely cried, appearing from the darkness; out of breath, and blackened with the smoke.

'We have done all we can; the fire is burning itself out; and even the corners where it hasn't spread, are nothing but heaps of ruins.

Disperse, my lads, while the coast's clear; get back by different ways; and meet as usual!' With that, he disappeared again,--contrary to his wont, for he was always first to advance, and last to go away,--leaving them to follow homewards as they would.
It was not an easy task to draw off such a throng.

If Bedlam gates had been flung wide open, there would not have issued forth such maniacs as the frenzy of that night had made.

There were men there, who danced and trampled on the beds of flowers as though they trod down human enemies, and wrenched them from the stalks, like savages who twisted human necks.
There were men who cast their lighted torches in the air, and suffered them to fall upon their heads and faces, blistering the skin with deep unseemly burns.