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Some advised that they should immediately make their escape; others proposed that Savage and Charnoc should without delay execute their purpose against Elizabeth; and Babington, in prosecution of this scheme, furnished Savage with money, that he might buy good clothes, and thereby have more easy access to the queen's person.
He is a very honest fellow, but of a small substance, though of good family enough." "Her Grace has some of her ladies, too, that are Catholics, has she not?" asked Robin. "There are two or three at least, and no trouble made. They hear mass when they can at the Embassies. Mendoza is a very good friend of ours." Mr. Charnoc came up presently to the two.
There was no signature, but there followed a dash of the pen, and then a scrawled "A.B.," as if an interruption had come, or as if the man who was with the writer would wait no longer. A third time Robin read it through. It was terribly easy of interpretation. "B." was Ballard; "G." was Gifford; "W." was Walsingham; "Ch." was Charnoc; "Her" was Mary Stuart; "C." was Chartley.
"Next," said Robin, hardly yet recovered from the extraordinary promptness of the challenge "Next, I was speaking with Mr. Babington a fortnight ago." "In what place?" "In the inn called the 'Red Bull, in Cheapside." "Good. I have lodged there myself," said the other. "And you are one " "No, sir," said Robin, "I do not deny that I spoke with them all with Mr. Charnoc and "
"These are all my private friends," he said, "and some of them be men of substance in their own place. There is Mr. Charnoc, of Lancashire, he with the gilt sword. He is of the Court of her Grace, and comes and goes as he pleases. He is lodged in Whitehall, and comes here but to see his friends. And there is Mr. Savage, in the new clothes, with his beard cut short.
Charnoc and the rest; he could not, even by a momentary lapse, allow what he knew to colour even the thoughts by which he dealt with men in ordinary life; for though it was true that no confession had been made, yet it was in virtue of his priesthood that he had been told so much.
In prosecution of these views, Babington employed himself in increasing the number of his associates; and he secretly drew into the conspiracy many Catholic gentlemen, discontented with the present government. Barnwell, of a noble family in Ireland, Charnoc, a gentleman of Lancashire, and Abington, whose father had been cofferer to the household readily undertook the assassination of the queen.
He had told her that she must give him shelter some day, as she was doing for so many. Meanwhile it was pleasant to hear her praises. "'Eve would be Eve," quoted Mr. Charnoc presently, in speaking of pious women's obstinacy, "'though Adam would say Nay." Then, at last, when Mr.
Charnoc said that he must be leaving for his own lodgings, and stood up; once more upon Robin's heart there fell the horrible memory of all that he had heard upstairs. It was strange to Robin to walk about the City, and to view all that he saw from his new interior position.
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