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He has a welcome and a husband ready for you and Rusha both?" "D'ye think I would go and leave you for Jeph, if he were lord of ten castles?" And Ben, whose recollections of Jeph were very dim, exclaimed, "Lord of a castle! I shall have a crow over Nick Blane now!"
Once Patience, left at home watching the rushing of the stream, became so frightened that she actually took the children up there, and set Rusha to hold the baby while she dragged up some sheepskins and some food. Steadfast coming home asked what she was about and laughed at her, showing her, by the marks on the trees, that the flood was already going down.
Patience's good butter and fresh eggs had come to be known in Bristol, and besides, Stead and Rusha used to find plovers' eggs on the common, for which the merchants' ladies would pay them, or later for wild strawberries and for whortleberries.
Hey, you now, Stead Kenton Lack-a-day, where be they?" For while the dispute was at its loudest and hottest, Stead had taken Rusha by the hand, made a sign to Patience, and the four deserted children had quietly gone away together into the copsewood that led to the little glen where the brook ran, and where was the cave that Steadfast looked on as his special charge.
As soon as Stead appeared, the other children ran up to him, and Rusha hid herself behind him, while Patience said "O Stead, Stead, he has come to turn us all out! Don't let him!" "Nay, nay, little wench, not so fast," said the steward, not unkindly. "But 'tis all poor father's," muttered Stead, almost dumbfounded.
As he walked through the wood, and drew near the glade, he was dismayed to hear voices, and to see Peter Pierce leaning against the wall of the house, but Rusha came running up to him exclaiming, "Oh! Stead, here is this good stranger that you met, telling us all about brother Jeph."
I won't hurt you," for something white seemed to be squeezing closer into the bush. "Who are you for?" piped out a weak little voice. "I'm no soldier," said Steadfast. "Come out, I'll take you home by-and-by." "I have no home!" was the answer. "I want father." Steadfast was now under the tree, and could see that it was a little girl who was sheltering there of about the same size as Rusha.
The marching of soldiers came even upon the grounds of Kennons. At times the noise and smoke of battle filled the atmosphere, as had the direful cholera thirty years before. Rusha Lisle would have turned Kennons into an hospital for Southern soldiers.
"He had got no surplice, and I knew him for a prick-eared Roundhead! I should have run off home if you had not held me, Patience. I'll never go there again." "I am sure you made it a misery to me, trying to make Rusha and Ben as idle and restless as yourself," said Patience. "They ought not to listen to a mere Roundhead sectary," said Emlyn, tossing her head.