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'Cousin Ridd, you may take it lightly, said Ruth, turning full upon me, 'and very likely you are right, according to your nature' this was the only cutting thing the little soul ever said to me 'but oh, Cousin Ridd, you have no idea of the pain you will leave behind you. 'How can that be so, Ruth, when I am as good as ordered to be off the premises?
At any rate, a Ridd was with him throughout all his hiding-time. We have always held by the King and crown: surely none will turn us out, unless we are guilty of treason? 'My son, replied Jeremy very gently, so that I could love him for it, 'not a word to your good mother of this unlucky matter. Keep it to yourself, my boy, and try to think but little of it.
Now, John, I have taken a liking to thee, for never man told me the truth, without fear or favour, more thoroughly and truly than thou hast done. Keep thou clear of this, my son. It will come to nothing; yet many shall swing high for it. Even I could not save thee, John Ridd, if thou wert mixed in this affair.
Half the pleasure of the mouth is in the nose beforehand. But stay, almost I forgot my business, in the hurry which thy tongue hath spread through my lately despairing belly. Hungry I am, and sore of body, from my heels right upward, and sorest in front of my doublet, yet may I not rest nor bite barley-bread, until I have seen and touched John Ridd.
However, when Uncle Ben saw Ruth, and knew what had befallen her, and she with tears in her eyes declared that she owed her life to Cousin Ridd, the old man became very gracious to me; for if he loved any one on earth, it was his little granddaughter.
For although there was nobody now in our family to be churchwarden of Oare, it was well admitted that we were the people entitled alone to that dignity; and though Nicholas Snowe was in office by name, he managed it only by mother's advice; and a pretty mess he made of it, so that every one longed for a Ridd again, soon as ever I should be old enough.
Ah, she is not of this black countree, she is of the breet Italie. I have tried to write it, as she said it: but it wants a better scholar to express her mode of speech. 'Now, John Ridd, said the King, recovering from his thoughts about the true Church, and thinking that his wife was not to take the lead upon me; 'thou hast done great service to the realm, and to religion.
Nay, nay, the yellows shall go in front; we attack on the Somerset side, I think. I from a hill will reconnoitre, as behoves a general, you shall stick behind a tree, if we can only find one big enough to hide you. You and I to be shot, John Ridd, with all this inferior food for powder anxious to be devoured?"
"Jeremy, Jerry," was all I could say, being so fearfully short of breath; for I had crossed the ground quicker than any horse could. "Spoken just in time, John Ridd!" cried Master Stickles, still however pointing the pistol at me: "I might have known thee by thy size, John. What art doing here?" "Come to save your life. For God's sake, go no farther.
If you only heard how he answered me. But let that go, I am nothing now, since the day I lost Cousin Ridd. And with that he began to push on again; but mother would not have it so. 'Oh, Tom, that was a loss indeed. And I am nothing either.
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