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Upstill fetched his dame from her bed in the hayloft, and Richard told her, in formal and authoritative manner, what he required of her. 'I will search her! answered the dame from between her closed teeth. 'Mistress Vaughan, said Richard, 'if she offer thee evil words, give her the same lesson thou gavest her husband. If all tales be true, she is not beyond the need of it.
'Why! dost not know me, master Upstill? When I was a little one, thou didst make my shoes for me. 'I trust it will be forgiven me, mistress. Truly I had ne'er made shoe for thee an' I had foreseen what thee would come to! For I make no farther doubt thou art a consorter with malignants, harlots, and papists.
'Cast-down Upstill, thou hast shamed thy regiment, carrying thyself thus to a gentlewoman, said Richard. 'Then he fired his carbine after me, said Dorothy. 'That may have been but his duty, returned Richard. 'And worst of all, continued Dorothy, 'he said that had he known what I should grow to, he would never have made shoes for me when I was an infant. Think on that, master Heywood!
But, good sooth, I would the sun were up! She led the way to the rick-yard, and round towards the sunrise. It was the month of August, and several new ricks already stood facing the east, yellow, and beginning to glow like a second dawn. Between the two, mistress Upstill began her search, which she made more thorough than agreeable. Dorothy submitted without complaint.
But, good sooth, I would the sun were up! She led the way to the rick-yard, and round towards the sunrise. It was the month of August, and several new ricks already stood facing the east, yellow, and beginning to glow like a second dawn. Between the two, mistress Upstill began her search, which she made more thorough than agreeable. Dorothy submitted without complaint.
At last Upstill, who had fallen on the bridge at his first start, and had ever since been rushing about with a limp and a leap alternated, managed to open the door of the hall, and its eastern door having been left open, shot across and into the outer court, where he made for the gate, followed at varied distance by the rest of the routed commissioners of search, as each had discovered the way his forerunner fled.
'Then had it been Upstill, thou wouldst not have minded? 'Upstill! I would never have told Upstill a falsehood. I would have beaten him first. 'Then thou didst think it better to tell a falsehood to me than to Upstill? 'I would rather sin against thee, an' it were a sin, Richard.
Satisfying themselves first therefore that their wives were doing their duty for their household, mistress Upstill was as good as two men at least at appropriation, they set out, Cast-down taking the lead, master Sycamore, John Croning, and the rest following, armed with crowbars, for the top of the great tower, ambitious to commence the overthrow by attacking the very summit, the high places of wickedness, the crown of pride; and after some devious wandering, at length found the way to the stair.
She had not thought to remove it from the place where she had carried it ever since receiving it. 'And now, master Heywood, I may go where I will? said Dorothy, venturing a half-roguish, but wholly shamefaced glance at him. But Dame Upstill was looking on, and Richard therefore brought as much of the midnight as would obey orders, back over his countenance as he answered: 'Nay, mistress.
"I read my Bible most days, only not the English Bible, which is full of errors, but the Latin, which is all as God gave it," says he. And thereby I had not where to answer withal. 'I fear you proved a poor champion of the truth, master Croning. 'Confess now, Cast-down Upstill, had he not both sun and wind of me standing, so to say, on his own hearth-stone?
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