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Updated: October 12, 2026
In order to prevent him, Waller presently dislodged, and hastened by quick marches to that town while the king, suddenly returning upon his own footsteps reached Oxford; and having reënforced his army from that garrison, now in his turn marched out in quest of Waller. The two armies faced each other at Cropredy Bridge, near Banbury; but the Charwell ran between them.
I never told it you. Nicholas Cropredy." "I knew it," said Gwen heedlessly. Then, to recover her foothold: "Somehow or other! You must have told it me. Else how could I have known?" "I must have.... No, I never knew when my father died. But I should have known. For I stood by his grave when I came back. Such a many years ago now even that! But I read it wrong.
"Read through to the end," said the Earl. And Gwen, with a painful feeling of bewilderment, obeyed orders, puzzling over phrases and sentences to find the thing she was to read for, and staggered a moment by the name "Cropredy," which she thought she must have misread. There was no clue in the letter itself, as she did not know who "Phoebe" and "Ruth" were.