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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Would father have said like that?" said the boy, bewildered, but conscious of something defective, though these were Bible words. "That's not the point! Captain Venn called every man to take the sword and hew down the wicked, and slay the ungodly and the murderers. I will!" cried Jeph, "none shall withhold me."
But after blows enough had fallen to mark the shirt with streaks of blood, Jeph could bear it no longer. "Hold!" he said. "You will never make him speak that way. Father and mother never could. Strokes do but harden him." "The sure token of a fool," said the corporal, and prepared for another lash. "'Tis plain he knows," said one of the others. "He would never stand this if a word would save him."
There was a free grammar school about three miles off to which he wanted to go, and Patience, who was proud of his ability, wished to send him, neither of them thinking anything of the walk. Stead, however, could see no use in more learning than he had himself. Neither he nor Jeph had been to school. Why should the child go?
Jeph also wished the whole family to come in on Sunday to profit by the preaching of some of the great Independent lights; but Stead, after trying it once, felt so sure that Patience would be miserable at anything so unaccustomed, so thunderous, and, as it seemed to him, so abusive, that he held to it that the distance was too great, and that the cattle could not be left.
But some of the others laughed, Jeph frowned and shook his head, and marched on. Stead was disappointed, but at any rate he could carry back the assurance to Patience that Jeph was alive and well, though he seemed to have lost all care for his brothers and sisters. Yet, perhaps, as a soldier he could not help it, and it might not be safe to straggle from the ranks.
I don't remember your face." "I have seen you, though. I am Jephthah Kenton's brother, that you asked for." "I mind you were but a stripling in those days, and yet in gross darkness. Yea, I have a letter for thee from my comrade, who is come to high preferment." "Jeph!" "Yea, things have prospered with him.
"Yes, you see," said Bluenose, modestly, "I'm raither moloncholy about old Jeph, an' if Bax and Tommy leave me, I'll feel quite desarted like. Moreover, I wants to see furrin' parts specially the antypodes. But I hain't blunt enough to pay my passage, d'ye see, and so and so " "In short," interpolated Tommy, "he's blunt enough to ask a free one!"
"And Stead, Jeph is an officer," said Patience, who was busied in setting before the visitor on a little round table, the best ale, bread, cheese, and butter that her hut afforded, together with an onion, which, he declared, was "what his good grandfather, a valiant man for the godly, had ever loved best." "An officer! Aye is he. A captain of his Ironside troop, very like to be Colonel ere long."
All his faculties were so entirely wrought up to resistance that he had hardly distinguished the words. "Come, come, Stead," said Jeph, "thou art too old for thine old sulky moods. Speak up, and tell if thou know'st aught of the Communion Cup and dish, or it will be the worse for thee. Yes or no?" Stead made a move with his shoulder to push away his brother, and still stood silent.
"A match, a match!" they cried, "Jeph and Jack." Stead had no fears about Jeph conquering, but while the others stood round to watch the boxing, he slipped away, with his heart perplexed and sad.
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