I said to the master of the shop, who by this time was fetched home from some neighbouring place, that it was in vain to make noise, and enter into talk there of the case; the fellow had insisted that I came to steal, and he must prove it, and I desired we might go before a magistrate without any more words; for I began to see I should be too hard for the man that had seized me.
Le maître et la maîtresse de la boutique furent loin de se montrer aussi violents que l'homme d'en face; et le maître me dit: