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'No; I will remain where I am until I hear the worst. 'Or come home with me, where thou wilt hear it yet sooner. Thou shalt taste a roundhead's hospitality. 'I scorn thee and thy false friendship, cried Rowland, and turning again into the closet, he bolted the door. That same morning a great iron ball struck the marble horse on his proud head, and flung it in fragments over the court.
"Turn out the guard, and encircle the ruins!" mimicked the voice, which was evidently receding; "the little Roundhead's in a passion! 'Turn out the guard! ah! ah! ah!" and the laugh appeared to die away beneath her feet.
Crispin had guessed the soldier's intent to fling himself upon the ground so that the ring of his armour might be heard, and perchance bring others to his aid. To avoid this, Galliard had swung him towards the bed, and hurled him on to it. There he pinned him with his knee, and with his fingers he gripped the Roundhead's throat, pressing the apple inwards with his thumb.
'No; I will remain where I am until I hear the worst. 'Or come home with me, where thou wilt hear it yet sooner. Thou shalt taste a roundhead's hospitality. 'I scorn thee and thy false friendship, cried Rowland, and turning again into the closet, he bolted the door. That same morning a great iron ball struck the marble horse on his proud head, and flung it in fragments over the court.
'Have you known my cousin Dorothy long? asked Scudamore. 'Longer than I can remember, answered Richard. 'Then you must be more like brother and sister than lovers. 'That, I fear, is her feeling, replied Richard, honestly. 'You need not think of me as a rival, said Scudamore. 'I never saw the young woman in my life before, and although anything of yours, being a roundhead's, is fair game
'I thank your lordship with all my heart, he said, putting on an air of greater satisfaction than he felt, 'and with your lordship's leave would prefer a further request. 'Say on, Rowland. I owe thee something for long and faithful service. An' I can, I will. 'Give me the roundhead's mare that I may the better find her master. For Lady was still within the walls.
But ere he had taken three strides the point of Crispin's tuck-sword gave him pause. "Halt! You cannot pass this way." "Back, son of Moab!" was the Roundhead's retort. "Hinder me not, at your peril." Behind him, in the doorway, pressed others, who cried out to him to cut down the Amalekite that stood between them and the young man Charles Stuart.
But wherefore didst thou lock the door upon her when thou sawest her go into the roundhead's prison? Thou knewest that therefrom she must bear the blame of having set him free, with other blame, and worse for a maiden to endure? 'It was a sudden temptation, my lord, which I knew not how to resist, and was carried away thereby. Have pity upon me, dear my lord, moaned Amanda.
But wherefore didst thou lock the door upon her when thou sawest her go into the roundhead's prison? Thou knewest that therefrom she must bear the blame of having set him free, with other blame, and worse for a maiden to endure? 'It was a sudden temptation, my lord, which I knew not how to resist, and was carried away thereby. Have pity upon me, dear my lord, moaned Amanda.
"Let me put in a word first," interrupted one of the long-tailed Radishes in the same bed; "for it is of no use to go out of one extreme into another, which you are on the high road to do if you are disposed to take Mr. Roundhead's advice; who, by the way, ought to be ashamed of forcing his very peculiar views upon his neighbours. Just look at us.
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