But if Kenneth be a prisoner, what then ?" "You must beg his liberty from Cromwell.

He will not refuse you." "Will he not?
I am none so confident." "But you can make the attempt, and leastways we shall have some definite knowledge of what has befallen the boy." "The which definite knowledge seems to me none so necessary.

Moreover, Gregory, bethink you; there has been a change, and the wind carries an edge that will arouse every devil of rheumatism in my bones.

I am not a lad, Gregory, and travelling at this season is no small matter for a man of fifty." Gregory approached the table, and leaning his hand upon it: "Will you go ?" he asked, squarely eyeing his brother.
Joseph fell a-pondering.

He knew Gregory to be a man of fixed ideas, and he bethought him that were he now to refuse he would be hourly plagued by Gregory's speculations touching the boy's fate and recriminations touching his own selfishness.