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"Well," resumed Wildrake, "I had been long one of Lundsford's lads, and well used to patrolling duty So, rat me, says I, if I leave a light in my rear, without knowing what it means. Besides, Mark, thou hadst said so much to me of thy pretty cousin, I thought I might as well have a peep, if I could."
"For me," said the Mayor, "who am as unlearned as I am unwarlike, I will not engage either with the Powers of the Earth, or the Prince of the Powers of the Air, and I would we were again at Woodstock; and hark ye, good fellow," slapping Wildrake on the shoulder, "I will bestow on thee a shilling wet and a shilling dry if thou wilt go back with me."
"Dost thou think, then," said Colonel Everard, "or rather does this clergyman think, that if they were secure of intrusion from me, the family would return to the Lodge, supposing the intruding Commissioners gone, and this nocturnal disturbance explained and ended?" "The old Knight," answered Wildrake, "may be wrought upon by the Doctor to return, if he is secure against intrusion.
While this conversation was carried on apart, Everard had almost forcibly detained by his own side his follower, Wildrake, whose greater curiosity, and lesser delicacy, would otherwise have thrust him forward, to get, if possible, into the secret.
Let all concerned think of this, and desist in time." He paused, and almost expected a reply, but none such came. "It is a very odd thing," said Wildrake; "but yaw-ha my brain cannot compass it just now; it whirls round like a toast in a bowl of muscadine; I must sit down haw-yaw and discuss it at leisure Gramercy, good elbow-chair."
To return to our story. In much shorter time than we have spent in reminding the reader of these historical particulars, Joliffe had made his mystic communication; and being duly answered as by one of the initiated, he undid the door, and there entered our old friend Roger Wildrake, round-head in dress, as his safety and dependence on Colonel Everard compelled him to be, but that dress worn in a most cavalier-like manner, and forming a stronger contrast than usual with the demeanour and language of the wearer, to which it was never very congenial.
As he rode on, immersed in these unpleasant contemplations, and considerably lessened in his own esteem by what had happened, Wildrake, who rode by his side, and was no friend to long silence, began to enter into conversation.
"Whom saidst thou?" demanded Cromwell: "Markham Everard shall he die, saidst thou?" "God forbid!" replied Holdenough, stepping back "I asked whether this blinded creature, Wildrake, was to be so suddenly cut off?" "Ay, marry is he," said Cromwell, "were the whole General Assembly of Divines at Westminster the whole Sanhedrim of Presbytery to offer bail for him."
On the dark October night succeeding the evening on which Tomkins was slain, Colonel Everard, besides his constant attendant Roger Wildrake, had Master Nehemiah Holdenough with him as a guest at supper.
But in spite of this balsam, sorrow, acting imperceptibly, and sucking the blood like a vampire, seemed gradually drying up the springs of life; and, without any formed illness, or outward complaint, the old man's strength and vigour gradually abated, and the ministry of Wildrake proved daily more indispensable. It was not, however, always to be had.
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