She did not fail to exclaim against this regulation; and being informed
that the cook and chambermaid lodged in a small office-house that
stood without the gate, ordered the drawbridge to be let down,
and in person beat up their quarters, commanding them forthwith to
set about scouring the rooms, which had not been hitherto kept in
a very decent condition, while two men were immediately employed
to transport the bed on which she used to lie from her brother's
house to her new habitation; so that, in less than two hours,
the whole economy of the garrison was turned topsy-turvy, and
everything involved in tumult and noise. Trunnion, being disturbed
and distracted with the uproar, turned out in his shirt like
a maniac, and, arming himself with a cudgel of crab-tree, made an
irruption into his wife's apartment, where, perceiving a couple of
carpenters at work in joining a bedstead, he, with many dreadful
oaths and opprobrious invectives, ordered them to desist, swearing
he would suffer no bulkheads nor hurricane-houses to stand where
he was master: but finding his remonstrances disregarded by these
mechanics, who believed him to be some madman belonging to the
family, who had broken from his confinement, he assaulted them
both with great fury and indignation, and was handled so roughly,
in the encounter, that in a very short time he measured his length
on the floor, in consequence of a blow that he received from a hammer
by which the sight of his remaining eye was grievously endangered.
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