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"Whom saidst thou?" demanded Cromwell: "Markham Everard shall he die, saidst thou?" "God forbid!" replied Holdenough, stepping back "I asked whether this blinded creature, Wildrake, was to be so suddenly cut off?" "Ay, marry is he," said Cromwell, "were the whole General Assembly of Divines at Westminster the whole Sanhedrim of Presbytery to offer bail for him."
"Can you mean the person whom" "Whom I saw so ruthlessly slaughtered," said the clergyman "My ancient college friend Joseph Albany." "Master Holdenough, your cloth and your character alike must prevent your jesting on such a subject as this." "Jesting!" answered Holdenough; "I would as soon jest on my death-bed as soon jest upon the Bible."
But the subject was changed by the entrance of the landlord, who came to announce to his honour Colonel Everard, that the worshipful Mayor of Woodstock, with the Rev. Master Holdenough, were come to wait upon him. Here we have one head Upon two bodies, your two-headed bullock Is but an ass to such a prodigy.
This took place about the 10th of June, and for a fortnight after that no change took place in any of their circumstances. Lady Alice Holdenough called upon Lady George, and, with her husband, dined at the deanery; but Mary saw nothing else of any of the ladies of the family.
"Thank ye, Mass-John," muttered Wildrake; "when did the Presbyterian fail to lend the devil a shove?" "But, I say," continued Holdenough, "that the matter is estranged from our present purpose, for the false brethren of whom I spoke are" "Right, excellent sir, they be those of our own house," answered Cromwell; "the good man is right once more.
Pountner, who had not yet forgotten the allusion to his obesity, whispered in some clerical ear that nothing better could be expected out of a stable; and Canon Holdenough, who really liked the Dean in spite of certain differences of opinion, expostulated with him about it. "I would have let it pass," said the Canon. "Why notice it at all?"
"Nay, gentlemen," said the Mayor, "if such be your purpose, we have not the means to withstand you, being, as you see, peaceful and quiet men But let me first speak with this worthy minister, Nehemiah Holdenough, to persuade him to yield up his place for the time without farther scandal."
Canon Holdenough, who made almost no reply to them. But the Dean was, on each occasion, prepared with some civil answer, which, while it was an answer, would still seem to change the conversation. It was a law in the Close that Bishop Barton should be never allowed to interfere with the affairs of Brotherton Cathedral; and if not the bishop, certainly not the bishop's chaplain.
If the Dean meddles with me, he shall find that he has got the wrong sow by the ear. If he puts his foot in the park again I'll have him warned off as a trespasser." "But you'll see Mr. Holdenough?" "I don't want to see anybody. I mean to hold my own, and do as I please with my own, and live as I like, and toady no one. What can I have in common with an old parson like that?"
"Who is dearer to Everard," said Holdenough, "than his good name, his faith to his friends, his duty to his religion; this is no time to speak with sugared lips. The paths in which you tread are dangerous. You are striving to raise the papistical candlestick which Heaven in its justice removed out of its place to bring back to this hall of sorceries those very sinners who are bewitched with them.
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