had been chiefly instrumental in bringing him to this punishment,
and set him on the same pillory where Fox had stood.
Fox was bold enough to convert some of Oliver Cromwell's soldiers,
who thereupon quitted the service and refused to take the oaths.
Oliver, having as great a contempt for a sect which would not allow
its members to fight, as Sixtus Quintus had for another sect, Dove
non si chiamava, began to persecute these new converts. The prisons
were crowded with them, but persecution seldom has any other effect
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fit, often wandering along in the great flower garden that
Lucien St. Aubyn, fourth baronet, son of General Sir Christian
“Clandestine?—certainly not. I was on my way to call
had the indescribable air of a “sure” man, a sound
damp freshness in the air of the passage, and a sort of
From the main landing he walked along the narrow corridor
Chief Inspector Kerry, dismissing the cabman, set off along
“No,” said Seton judicially, gazing through his uplifted
in finding any place to pitch our tents, for it was spring-tide,
as possible, and instantly snapped off the light of the
He paused for a moment, hoping to be able to lower the
beside his overall. He retained his bowler at its jaunty