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Rochecliffe says," answered Lee, "the treaty between Sir Henry and his nephew binds the latter not to approach the Lodge, unless invited; indeed, it was not without great difficulty, and strongly arguing the good consequences it might produce to your Majesty's cause, that my father could be prevailed on to occupy Woodstock at all; but be assured he will be in no hurry to send an invitation to the Colonel."
Rochecliffe had contrived to intimate to Alice that she must give him a private audience, and she found him by appointment in what was called the study, once filled with ancient books, which, long since converted into cartridges, had made more noise in the world at their final exit, than during the space which had intervened betwixt that and their first publication.
His address was by no means prepossessing, being a mixture of awkwardness and forwardness, and showing in a remarkable degree, how a want of easy address may be consistent with an admirable stock of assurance. His face intimated having received some recent scratches, and the care of Dr. Rochecliffe had decorated it with a number of patches, which even enhanced its natural plainness.
None such was yet in readiness; but he learned that the indefatigable Albert Lee was, at great personal risk, traversing the sea-coast from town to village, and endeavouring to find means of embarkation among the friends of the royal cause, and the correspondents of Dr. Rochecliffe. Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch!
Besides," he added, "Rochecliffe is in possession of curious and important news concerning the state of matters at Woodstock, highly favourable to your Majesty's being concealed in the palace for two or three days, till shipping is provided.
He had a pickaxe and shovel, together with a deer's hide hanging over his shoulder. "What do you want with the hide, Joceline," said Dr. Rochecliffe, "that you lumber it about with you on such an errand?" "Why, look you, Doctor," he answered, "it is as well to tell you all about it. The man and I he there you know whom I mean had many years since a quarrel about this deer.
"But harm cannot come of it; Everard will never lift his sword against the King." "For that," said Dr. Rochecliffe, "I would not warrant. But if that unhappy young gentleman shall have still some reserve of the loyalty which his general conduct entirely disavows, it would not serve us here; for he knows not the King, but considers him merely as a cavalier, from whom he has received injury."
But I can guess Phil was always a devil among the girls, and I think, as Doctor Rochecliffe says, that, since he turned saint, he took to himself seven devils worse than himself. Here is the very place where I saw him, with his sword in his hand raised against the old knight, and he a child of the parish it was high treason at least but, by my faith, he hath paid for it at last."
"I trust," said Sir Henry, sitting down by his desk, after having taken a tender farewell of his son, "that Rochecliffe has not blabbed out the secret of the plot to yonder fellow Tomkins, who was not unlikely to prate of it out of school. But here am I seated perhaps for the last time, with my Bible on the one hand, and old Will on the other, prepared, thank God, to die as I have lived.
"What can have become of Doctor Rochecliffe?" said Alice; "he that is so ready with advice; where can they be gone? Oh, if my father could but rouse himself!" "Your father is roused," said Sir Henry, rising and stepping up to them with all the energy of full manhood in his countenance and motions "I did but gather my thoughts for when did they fail a Lee when his King needed counsel or aid?"
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