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He was descending the steps of his club in Fall Mall, and found his arm caught by Naseby, who had just dismissed his hansom outside. "I came back last night. Are you going homewards? I'll walk across the Square with you." The two men turned into St. James's Square, and Naseby resumed: "Yes, we had a most lively campaign. Maxwell spoke better than I ever heard him."
'Granted that my father was misinformed, would it not have been more decent to withhold the letter and communicate with him in private? 'Believe me, returned the editor, 'that alternative was not open to me. Mr. Naseby told me in a note that he had sent his letter to three other journals, and in fact threatened me with what he called exposure if I kept it back from mine.
There was a last eager, brighter look, but that was for nothing here. The physicians said he died of the old wound in the lungs received at Naseby, so that he gave his life as much for the cause as my father and Berenger had done, though he had had far, far more to suffer in his nine years of banishment.
'I have misjudged him, said the Squire. 'Do you know where he is? 'Yes, sir, he lies sick at Thymebury. 'You can take me to him? 'I can. 'I pray God he may forgive me, said the father. Next day the report went abroad that Mr. Richard was reconciled to his father and had been taken home to Naseby House. He was still ailing, it was said, and the Squire nursed him like the proverbial woman.
Still Esther continued immovable and gazed upon the candle. Midnight followed, and then one of the morning; and still she had not stirred, nor had Richard Naseby dared to quit the window.
About a month after the battle of Naseby, and while yet the king was going and coming as regards Raglan, the wounded Rowland, long before he was fit to be moved from the farm-house where his servant had found him shelter, was brought home to the castle. Shafto, faithful as hare-brained, had come upon him almost accidentally, after long search, and just in time to save his life.
Sir Gervase Langford would have charged upon the foe, his feathers flying and his lady's colors woven into a love-knot above his cuirass, singing a roundelay of decidedly loose tendencies, precisely as he had once charged beside Prince Rupert on the bloody day of Long Marston; and Master John Grimston would have snuffled a psalm through his nose and made a thanksgiving prayer over a cut throat, swinging his long two-handed sword meanwhile, as he had done when mowing down the 'malignants' at Naseby, under the very eye of Oliver himself.
My great-grandsire fought at Naseby and Marston Moor for Charles, and suffered exile in his name. 'Twas love for King James that sent my father hither, though he swore allegiance to Anne and the First George. I can say with pride that he was no indifferent servant to either, refusing honours from the Pretender in '15, when he chanced to be at home.
He had only been a soldier a few months when the battle of Naseby, fatal to the royal cause, was fought, June 14, 1645. Bristol was surrendered by Prince Rupert, Sept. 10th. Three days later Montrose was totally defeated at Philiphaugh; and after a vain attempt to relieve Chester, Charles shut himself up in Oxford.
Fontenoy's hopes have been going down. The Government will get through this clause at all events by a shave." "What a fuss everybody is making about this Bill!" "Well, you don't root up whole industries without a fuss. But, certainly, Maxwell has roused the country finely." "She will break down if it goes on," said Lady Madeleine, in a melancholy voice. Naseby laughed. "Not at all!
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