Not, however, before that heavy cane came down upon my head in a way to lay me in a heap at his feet and to sow the seeds of that blinding head-ache, which has afflicted me by spells ever since.
But this termination of the affair was no more than I had feared from the beginning; and indeed it was as much to protect Mrs.Blake from the wrath of these men, as from any requirements of the situation I had assumed the disguise I then wore.

I therefore did not allow this mishap to greatly trouble me, unpleasant as it was at the time, but, as soon as ever I could do so, rose from the floor and throwing off my strange habiliments, proceeded to finish up to my satisfaction, the work already so successfully begun..