CHAPTER XLI.
THE LAST DAY AND WHAT HAPPENED IN IT.
The religious excitement reached its culmination as the tenth and eleventh of August came on.

Some made ascension-robes.

Work was suspended everywhere.

The more abandoned, unwilling to yield to the panic, showed its effects on them by deeper potations, and by a recklessness of wickedness meant to conceal their fears.

With tin horns they blasphemously affected to be angels blowing trumpets.