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without some awful pleasureto the thunder of the cannonade.
Lord Hardwicke intervened between the rebels and La Marmora; and
there followed a troubled armisticefilled with the voice of panic. Now
the VENGEANCE was known to be cleared for action; now it was
rumoured that the galley slaves were to be let loose upon the townand
now that the troops would enter it by storm. Crowdstrusting in the
Union Jack over the Jenkins' doorcame to beg them to receive their
linen and other valuables; nor could their instances be refused; and in the
midst of all this bustle and alarmpiles of goods must be examined and
long inventories made. At last the captain decided things had gone too
far. He himself apparently remained to watch over the linen; but at five
o'clock on the Sunday morningAunt AnnaFleemingand his mother
were rowed in a pour of rain on board an English merchantmanto suffer
'nine mortal hours of agonising suspense.' With the end of that time
peace was restored. On Tuesday morning officers with white flags
appeared on the bastions; thenregiment by regimentthe troops
marched intwo hundred men sleeping on the ground floor of the
Jenkins' housethirty thousand i [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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