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There was a little wind, and the weather was moist and thick, so there was no danger of our being overheard. "My Lord," I said, "I am very much puzzled by what I have seen." "Eh?" said he. "It was a very mixed company just now, in Amwell." He frowned a little. "Very excellent gentlemen, all of them " I hastened to add. "But I was wondering what it was that drew them all together.
Though released from the business of the school, the absence of your governess confines me to Amwell during the vacation. I cannot better employ my leisure hours than in contributing to the amusement of you my kind pupils, who, by your affectionate attentions to my instructions, have rendered a life of labour pleasant to me.
When we came about two miles to the north of Amwell which we did about eleven o'clock, as I had been bid, I bade my servants stay behind, and not come after me till half an hour later; further I bade them, if, when they came, they found me in any man's company, neither to salute me nor to make any sign of recognition; but to pass straight on to Hoddesdon and wait for me there, not at the inn where I was known, but at another little one the King's Arms at the further end of the village, and there they were to dine.
Was it for this, that, smit in boyhood with the explorations of that Abyssinian traveller, I paced the vales of Amwell to explore your tributary springs, to trace your salutary waters sparkling through green Hertfordshire, and cultured Enfield parks?
Some of our people do indeed hold, that every writer who is not with us is against us; but brother Joshua is mitigated in his opinions, and correspondeth with our friend John Scot of Amwell, who hath himself constructed verses well approved of even in the world. I wish thee many good thoughts till our family meet at the hour of dinner.
Mallock," he said, "from your hesitation I knew that you would refuse to do such work as this. So I intended to catch you unawares, and to entangle you in it. I knew that you would not refuse to go to Amwell, and behave there as I directed, if I said no more than I did." "Well; you would have failed," I said. "What!" said he. "You are still going to refuse?"
"No," said I, "I accept the work: but it is not what you think it is." "Why what is it then?" "Wait," I said. "The next is, How did you know that they would be at Amwell at that time?"
"Oh! that is easy enough; one of my fellows got that out of one of Rumbald's maids that a party of six would lie at the Ryehouse last night; and that they would meet two more at dinner in Amwell at eleven o'clock to-day. Rumbald has been known to us a long while. But it is the others we are waiting for." I was silent.
Here, Sir, was a man, to whom the most disgusting circumstance in the business to which he had been used was a relief from idleness. On Wednesday, April 5, I dined with him at Messieurs Dilly's, with Mr. John Scott of Amwell, the Quaker, Mr. Langton, Mr. Thomas Campbell, an Irish clergyman, whom I took the liberty of inviting to Mr. Dilly's table, having seen him at Mr.
And a famous sight it was, the apprentice said. The Lord Mayor of London, the Aldermen, and the Recorder were all present in their robes and gowns to watch the floodgate opened, which was to pour the stream that had run from Amwell Head into the great cistern near Islington. And this was done amidst deafening cheers and the thunder of ordnance.
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