[Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBarnaby Rudge CHAPTER 57 16/17
The two men he had stunned, were carried off by their companions in the same business-like way in which everything else was done.
Finally, he was left under a guard of four soldiers with fixed bayonets, while the officer directed in person the search of the house and the other buildings connected with it. This was soon completed.
The soldiers formed again in the yard; he was marched out, with his guard about him; and ordered to fall in, where a space was left.
The others closed up all round, and so they moved away, with the prisoner in the centre. When they came into the streets, he felt he was a sight; and looking up as they passed quickly along, could see people running to the windows a little too late, and throwing up the sashes to look after him.
Sometimes he met a staring face beyond the heads about him, or under the arms of his conductors, or peering down upon him from a waggon-top or coach-box; but this was all he saw, being surrounded by so many men.
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