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Between those lines you may read the true reason why the Lady Alice Lisle died. She died to slake the cruelly vindictive thirst of King James II on the one hand, and Colonel Penruddock on the other, against her husband who had been dead for twenty years.
"Talking of Roman Catholics," said Mr. Wilton, "is it true that Penruddock has gone over to Rome?" "No truth in it," replied a colleague. "He has gone to Rome there is no doubt of that, and he has been there some time, but only for distraction. He had overworked himself." "He might have been a Dean if he had been a practical man," whispered Lady Montfort to Mr.
A consultation and council of war was held, when Grove, Hunt, and Penruddock came to a determination to die sword in hand rather than trust to the clemency of him, whom they deemed an usurper, and they returned an answer accordingly.
I am going to ask my lord to let Mr. Penruddock marry us." "Oh! that will be capital," said Endymion. "There is another person, by the by, who must know it, at least my lord says so," said Myra, "and that is Lady Montfort; you have heard of that lady and her plans. Well, she must be told at least, sooner or later. She will be annoyed, and she will hate me.
Martin!" said he, viewing me askance as I were raving. "So young, Martin! And a bullet wound i' the arm and mighty brave, despite her tenderness, so says Penruddock our surgeon." "Why then, in God's name where is she?" "Where should she be, seeing she was wounded and solitary, but with my lady Joan!" "God forbid!" cried I.
In the meantime, Oliver had sent some of his agents amongst the men, to whom they pointed out the desperate situation in which their commanders had placed them, and urged them at once to accept the offer of the Protector and return to their homes; and when Grove, Hunt, and Penruddock ordered their men to prepare for the attack, they one and all refused, and immediately lay down their arms, upon which they were instantly surrounded, and made prisoners; and instead of Cromwell keeping his word with these poor fellows, he ordered every common man to be instantly hung upon the boughs of trees and elsewhere, and the officers to be committed to three separate jails in the West of England upon a charge of high treason, for making war against the troops of the Commonwealth, in order to depose the Protector, and with an intent to alter the government and constitution of the country, as by the then law established.
The conversion of England was deeply engraven on the heart of Penruddock; it was his constant purpose, and his daily and nightly prayer. So the Archbishop was seen everywhere, even at fashionable assemblies.
When the tumult was at its height, came her ladyship at last into the room, where Colonel Penruddock stood watching the operations of his men. She stood in the doorway leaning upon her ebony cane, her faded eyes considering the gaunt soldier with reproachful question. "Sir," she asked him with gentle irony, masking her agitation, "has my house been given over to pillage?"
He selected it out of hundreds, and placed himself in communication with Mr. Penruddock. The result was, that Miss Ferrars was to pay a visit to the Neuchatels; and if, on experience, they liked each other, the engagement was to take place.
Now, it happened, by the irony of Fate, that the justice sought by Barter was one Colonel Penruddock the vindictive son of that Penruddock whom the late John Lisle whilst Lord President of the High Court had sentenced to death some thirty years ago for participation in an unsuccessful Wiltshire rising against the Commonwealth.
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