The chairman then resumed his normal duties, with a brief "Go on" to me, and I promptly went on, finishing the lecture in peace.

But outside the hall there was plenty of stone-throwing, and Mrs.Elmy received a cut on the temple from a flint.

This stormy work gradually lessened, and my experience of it was a mere trifle compared to that which my predecessors had faced.
Mr.Bradlaugh's early experiences involved much serious rioting, and Mrs.Harriet Law, a woman of much courage and of strong natural ability, had many a rough meeting in her lecturing days.
In September, 1875, Mr.Bradlaugh again sailed for America, still to earn money there to pay his debts.

Unhappily he was struck down by typhoid fever, and all his hopes of freeing himself thus were destroyed.

His life was well-nigh despaired of, but the admirable skill of physician and nurse pulled him through.