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Updated: June 19, 2025
"So please you, sir," said Wildrake, "and with your most powerful warrant, I trust I might expel the commissioners, even without the aid of your most warlike and devout troopers."
"When I am about to intrust all I have most valuable on earth to your management, your conduct and language are those of a mere Bedlamite. Last night I made allowance for thy drunken fury; but who can endure thy morning madness? it is unsafe for thyself and me, Wildrake it is unkind I might say ungrateful."
"Truly," said Wildrake, making an effort to answer the question with seeming indifference, while the possibility of such an event, and its consequences, flashed fearfully upon his mind, "Truly, I should be of your honour's opinion, but that I think the company, who, by the commission of Parliament, have occupied Woodstock, are likely to fright them thence, as a cat scares doves from a pigeon-house.
"I am a bold dare-devil enough, yet when I had two inches of oak plank between the actual fiend and me, hang him that would demolish the barrier between us, say I I would as soon, when aboard, bore a hole in the ship, and let in the waves; for you know we always compare the devil to the deep sea." "Prithee, peace, Wildrake," said Everard, "and let him go on with his history.
Rochecliffe, "allow us to remind you of your gout, and our long journey. I do it the rather that my good friend your son has been, during the whole time of supper, putting questions to me aside, which had much better be reserved till to-morrow May we therefore ask permission to retire to our night's rest?" "These private committees in a merry meeting," said Wildrake, "are a solecism in breeding.
Then, alas! the floodgates were opened, and they showered on each other Greek and Hebrew texts, while their eyes kindled, their cheeks glowed, their hands became clenched, and they looked more like fierce polemics about to rend each other's eyes out, than Christian divines. Roger Wildrake, by making himself an auditor of the debate, contrived to augment its violence.
"Ah, good man!" said Cromwell, "and did he touch upon this so feelingly! I could say something but not now. Begone, Pearson, to the gallery. Let not our friends lay aside their swords, but watch as well as pray." Pearson retired; and the General, holding the letter of Everard in his hand, looked again for a long while fixedly at Wildrake, as if considering in what strain he should address him.
But this natural and sudden flash of indignation, which rushed through the veins of an ordinary man like Wildrake, was presently subdued, when confronted with the strong yet stifled emotion displayed by so powerful a character as Cromwell.
He returned to the little town, followed by his attendant Wildrake, who turned back so often, with weeping eyes, and hands clasped and uplifted as supplicating Heaven, that Everard was obliged to remind him that his gestures might be observed by some one, and occasion suspicion.
Everard exclaimed angrily to Wildrake, "Is this your friendship?
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