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They reached Hastings at twenty minutes to ten , where , to the disgust of all , the region of Central Station was found crowded ; whereupon Sir Francis Yeames held a consultation with a local rector , and a dash was made to a private hotel near the pier . There , looking from behind window curtains at eleven , Hogarth saw before a paper-shop : FLIGHT OF THE REGENT A minute afterwards he started backward from the splintered window . Everything was known : LIFE-HISTORY OF THE CONVICT HOGARTH MARVELLOUS DETAILS The street , to its two vanishing-points , was one scene of hats , mixed with upturned faces : and it was an aggressive crowd that gave out a sound . Not till noon did the _ Boodah II . _ arrive ; and then there was no setting out -- all the front windows of the house now broken , and in the town a row like the feeding-time of lions , which uttered `` coward '' , `` murderer '' , `` convict '' , `` traitor '' . Hogarth had been put to bed , the two ladies were in a state of scare , Margaret anon crying on Loveday 's shoulder , declaring that `` _ He _ '' -LRB- meaning Frankl -RRB- was in the crowd , and coming , coming , boring his way : she had seen him . At last , near four P.M. , a portion of the yard-wall at the back was broken down by the party , Hogarth was raised and dressed , and through the breach the party passed into another back-yard , then made beachward , Hogarth leaning on the arm of Sir Martin Phipps ; but they had no sooner come to the Esplanade than they were surrounded , and when , on their attaining the pier , the pier-turnstile was closed against the mob , it was impossible to conceive whence so many missiles came .