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"I did, when I had copied out the comfortable text, 'Thou shalt tread down Satan under thy feet." "And what did you then see?" "The reflection of the same Joseph Albany," said Holdenough, "passing slowly as from behind my chair the same in member and lineament that I had known him in his youth, excepting that his cheek had the marks of the more advanced age at which he died, and was very pale."
After some time spent in waiting for him, Mr. Holdenough began to walk up the aisles of the chapel, not with the slow and dignified carriage with which the old Rector was of yore wont to maintain the dignity of the surplice, but with a hasty step, like one who arrives too late at an appointment, and bustles forward to make the best use of his time.
There was nobody there to see, nor to hear. Well; I believe I'll think of going. There's a train at two. You'll let me have a carriage; won't you?" "Certainly." "Let me get out some back way, and don't say a word about this till I'm off. I wouldn't have them condoling with me, and rejoicing in their sleeves, for a thousand pounds. Tell Holdenough, or my sister; that'll be enough. Good-bye.
The reader will recollect, that when Rochecliffe and Joceline were made prisoners, the party which escorted them had two other captives in their train, Colonel Everard, namely, and the Rev. Nehemiah Holdenough.
Kindly and respectfully the Colonel anew pressed Master Holdenough to communicate the events that had befallen him on the preceding night; and the good clergyman proceeded as follows, with that little characteristic touch of vanity in his narrative, which naturally arose out of the part he had played in the world, and the influence which he had exercised over the minds of others.
"In good truth, worthy and noble sir," said the Mayor, "it is even as Master Holdenough says our privileges are declared void, our cattle seized in the very pastures. They talk of cutting down and disparking the fair Chase, which has been so long the pleasure of so many kings, and making Woodstock of as little note as any paltry village.
Truly, the matter begins almost to pass my wit, though I have transacted the affairs of this borough for many a long day; and you are come to my assistance like, like" "Tanquam Deus ex machina, as the Ethnic poet hath it," said Master Holdenough, "although I do not often quote from such books.
Joseph Albany, whom my own eyes saw precipitated from the battlements of Clidesthrow Castle?" "Ay," answered the Doctor, "but you did not see me swim ashore on a marsh covered with sedges fugit ad salices after a manner which I will explain to you another time." Holdenough touched his hand with doubt and uncertainty.
"Nay, therein I differ from you, sir," said Holdenough; "for as there is the mouth to transmit the food, and the profit to digest what Heaven hath sent; so is the preacher ordained to teach and the people to hear; the shepherd to gather the flock into the sheepfold, the sheep to profit by the care of the shepherd."
Master Holdenough soon engaged himself in a polemical discourse against Sectaries and Independents, without being aware that his eloquence was not very interesting to his principal hearer, whose ideas in the meanwhile wandered to Woodstock and all which it contained the Prince, who lay concealed there his uncle above all, Alice Lee.
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