the next night's lodging.

Having no inclination to sleep, her thoughts, during the remaining
part of the night, were engrossed by a scheme of reformation she
was resolved to execute in the family; and no sooner did the first
lark bid salutation to the morn, than, starting from her humble
couch, and huddling on her clothes, she sallied from her chamber,
explored her way through paths before unknown, and in the course
of her researches perceived a large bell, to which she made such
effectual application as alarmed every soul in the family. In a
moment she was surrounded by Hatchway, Pipes, and all the rest of
the servants half-dressed; but seeing none of the feminine gender
appear, she began to storm at the sloth and laziness of the maids,
who, she observed, ought to have been at work an hour at least
before she called; and then, for the first time, understood that
no woman was permitted to sleep within the walls.

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