And, whenever Dorothea looked back on this epoch in her life, what she found most wonderful was the suddenness of its end.

As day broke in a drizzle, and before she was well awake, a troop of dragoons, followed by a company of the 52nd Regiment of foot, passed the Bayfield gates on the way to Axcester.

The troopers entered the town while the Ting-tang was sounding, and before the roll could be called the prisoners were surrounded.

Their release had come; and though many had sighed for it for years, it found them quite unprepared.
Their release had come; but first they must be marched through the length of the country to Kelso, there to await the formalities of exchange.

At four in the afternoon the infantry marched out with the first great batch.