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Article THE PURITAN'S SISTER. ← Page 3 of 13 →
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The Puritan's Sister.
you to my thoughts , for , at present , purposes I have none . AVhat is the present state of England ? Cromwell , whose gigantic mind would crash a throne , and from its shattered fragments build a seat yet more despotic—whose genius held in check an indignant people—whose policy gave laws to Europe—that great regicide has gone to his account . " " Ah , " interrupted his hearer , " Old Noll gone to the devil ! then
Richard Ms son , as great a fool as his father was knave , now governs in Ms place" " Did govern , " replied Ms brother ; three days since the Protector secretly withdrew to France . " " What I" exclaimed William , " gone—shown the white featherhurra !—then the king returns—up with the cavaliers , and down ivith the roundheads . God Save King Charles ! Brother , let ' s to Canterbury , collect our friends , unfurl the royal standard , and pay the cropeared rascal off old scores . "
" And so prejudice the royal cause . No , William , that were now a hopeless game—the whole army is devoted to the" Parliament—Monk has returned from Ireland—upon Mm depends the fate of England . A feeling has gone forth that the nation will recall the king if he does not oppose it ; for he alone of all the republican party , is capable of filling Cromwell ' s seat . . My Lord of Manchester writes to me to remain quiet :
- —one rash movement , he says , ivill ruin all—within tMee days he tells me I may expect great news . " " Pooh ! Manchester is a time-server , an old woman , who would have lackied Noll ' s wife for place or pension . How do you intend to act ?"
" If , replied Richard , " I rightly comprehend the purposes of General Monk my course is clear—secretly to warn our friends , but to make no open display of party . To tMs end , I could have wished you had been more suitably attired , for the news hath reached the city—all Canterbury is rife with it—and that plume and scarlet cloak match not ivith the fasMon of my doublet . "
" Brother , fear not ^ -I will be discreet ; carry myself with such humility that you shall wonder at me . Ill doff my cap to every alderman —nay , to the meanest burgess that I meet—give the wall to the beadle , expound pious texts with Master Newli ght—you shall marvel at me , I ivill be so guarded . " Ere Richard could reply to his assurance they reached the Bergate
, then the principal entrance to the city from the Dover road . Several carts laden with vegetables for the market , stopped the narrow way . While they were waiting for a clear passage they were joined by a tall , lean figure , whose black cloak and Geneva bands indicated a minister of the new church . He acknowled ged the salutation of the young men
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The Puritan's Sister.
you to my thoughts , for , at present , purposes I have none . AVhat is the present state of England ? Cromwell , whose gigantic mind would crash a throne , and from its shattered fragments build a seat yet more despotic—whose genius held in check an indignant people—whose policy gave laws to Europe—that great regicide has gone to his account . " " Ah , " interrupted his hearer , " Old Noll gone to the devil ! then
Richard Ms son , as great a fool as his father was knave , now governs in Ms place" " Did govern , " replied Ms brother ; three days since the Protector secretly withdrew to France . " " What I" exclaimed William , " gone—shown the white featherhurra !—then the king returns—up with the cavaliers , and down ivith the roundheads . God Save King Charles ! Brother , let ' s to Canterbury , collect our friends , unfurl the royal standard , and pay the cropeared rascal off old scores . "
" And so prejudice the royal cause . No , William , that were now a hopeless game—the whole army is devoted to the" Parliament—Monk has returned from Ireland—upon Mm depends the fate of England . A feeling has gone forth that the nation will recall the king if he does not oppose it ; for he alone of all the republican party , is capable of filling Cromwell ' s seat . . My Lord of Manchester writes to me to remain quiet :
- —one rash movement , he says , ivill ruin all—within tMee days he tells me I may expect great news . " " Pooh ! Manchester is a time-server , an old woman , who would have lackied Noll ' s wife for place or pension . How do you intend to act ?"
" If , replied Richard , " I rightly comprehend the purposes of General Monk my course is clear—secretly to warn our friends , but to make no open display of party . To tMs end , I could have wished you had been more suitably attired , for the news hath reached the city—all Canterbury is rife with it—and that plume and scarlet cloak match not ivith the fasMon of my doublet . "
" Brother , fear not ^ -I will be discreet ; carry myself with such humility that you shall wonder at me . Ill doff my cap to every alderman —nay , to the meanest burgess that I meet—give the wall to the beadle , expound pious texts with Master Newli ght—you shall marvel at me , I ivill be so guarded . " Ere Richard could reply to his assurance they reached the Bergate
, then the principal entrance to the city from the Dover road . Several carts laden with vegetables for the market , stopped the narrow way . While they were waiting for a clear passage they were joined by a tall , lean figure , whose black cloak and Geneva bands indicated a minister of the new church . He acknowled ged the salutation of the young men