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Rochecliffe offered some resistance, but was presently secured by the soldiers who pressed around him. "Look, some of you," said Cromwell, "what corpse this is upon whom these lewd sons of Belial have done a murder Corporal Grace-be-here Humgudgeon, see if thou knowest the face."
Then, if his slow and formal step was heard in the passages approaching the gallery, Dr. Rochecliffe, though he never introduced him to his peculiar boudoir, was sure to meet Master Tomkins in some neutral apartment, and to engage him in long conversations, which apparently had great interest for both. Neither was the Independent's reception below stairs less gracious than above.
"Adieu," said Rochecliffe, "I must to my task Do you take rest and repose for yours. To conceal a slaughtered body, and convey on the same night a king from danger and captivity, are two feats which have fallen to few folks save myself; but let me not, while putting on my harness, boast myself as if I were taking it off after a victory."
Rochecliffe twitched his cloak, as a hint to him to sit still, and not show any extraordinary motive for anxiety, since, in case of a sudden discovery of his real quality, the violence of Sir Henry Lee's feelings might have been likely to attract too much attention.
"Even so," replied Rochecliffe, "by the same token I appeared to you in the Mirror Chamber Thou wert so bold, Nehemiah, that our whole scheme would have been shipwrecked, had I not appeared to thee in the shape of a departed friend. Yet, believe me, it went against my heart to do it."
It is enough to have to go through my task, I will not endure the distress of telling it over, and that to one who forgive me, dear Doctor might not think my agitation on this occasion fully warranted." "Nay, then, my young mistress, you must be ruled," said Rochecliffe; "and if I cannot make you explain yourself, I must see whether your father can gain so far on you."
My very arms feel as if they did not belong to me; and, strange to tell, toil as hard as I would, I could not gather warmth in my limbs." "I have warmed me enough," said Rochecliffe, breathing short with fatigue. "But the cold lies at my heart," said Joceline; "I scarce hope ever to be warm again. It is strange, and a charm seems to be on us.
He will not fail you, for I know his unhappy foible." "Doctor Rochecliffe," said Alice gravely, "you have known me from infancy, What have you seen in me to induce you to believe that I should ever follow such unbecoming counsel?"
Upon the Restoration, Doctor Rochecliffe regained his living of Woodstock, with other Church preferment, and gave up polemics and political intrigues for philosophy.
He does not know the depth of the stake, 'tis true, but that my life is concerned will be quite enough to keep him vigilant. Well, then, I proceed: What if Markham Everard comes down on us?" "We have his word to the contrary," answered Rochecliffe "his word of honour, transmitted by his friend: Do you think it likely he will break it?"
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