midnight
While he was doing this , another man with an equally tender conscience -LRB- they had both been foremost in throwing down the canary birds for roasting alive -RRB- , took his seat on the parapet of the house , and harangued the crowd from a pamphlet circulated by the Association , relative to the true principles of Christianity ! Meanwhile the Lord Mayor , with his hands in his pockets , looked on as an idle man might look at any other show , and seemed mightily satisfied to have got a good place . Such were the accounts brought to the old vintner by his servants as he sat at the side of Mr Haredale 's bed , having been unable even to doze , after the first part of the night ; too much disturbed by his own fears ; by the cries of the mob , the light of the fires , and the firing of the soldiers . Such , with the addition of the release of all the prisoners in the New Jail at Clerkenwell , and as many robberies of passengers in the streets , as the crowd had leisure to indulge in , were the scenes of which Mr Haredale was happily unconscious , and which were all enacted before midnight . When darkness broke away and morning began to dawn , the town wore a strange aspect indeed . Sleep had hardly been thought of all night . The general alarm was so apparent in the faces of the inhabitants , and its expression was so aggravated by want of rest -LRB- few persons , with any property to lose , having dared go to bed since Monday -RRB- , that a stranger coming into the streets would have supposed some mortal pest or plague to have been raging .