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Among the wretched crowds also might be distinguished, by their

_long lock_, by the remnants of their magnificent apparel, by

their carriage and gestures, and by the traces which habit

impresses on the countenance, many bravoes, who, having lost in

the common misery their criminal means of support, were reduced

to an equality of suffering, and with difficulty dragged

themselves along the city that they had so often traversed with a

proud and ferocious bearing, magnificently armed and attired;

they now extended with humility the hand which they had so

frequently raised to menace with insolence, or to strike with

treachery.