I am not at all sure but that it may not be best for you to keep away from the case at first at any rate.

You have the King's ear, which is worth more to us than any testimony you could give." "Why do you not fly the country ?" I cried.
He smiled again.
"Because that," he said, "would be as much as to say that we were guilty; and so the whole Society would be thought guilty, and the Church too.

No, Mr.Mallock, we must see the matter out, and trust to what justice we can get.

But I do not think we shall get a great deal." So it was decided then, that I would not give testimony unless there was some call for it; and I took my leave, marvelling at the constancy of these men, who preferred to imperil life itself, sooner than reputation.
* * * * * Well; all went forward as Mr.Whitbread had said it would.

On the twenty-eighth day of September Dr.Oates appeared before the Council to give his testimony; and it was to the same effect as was that which I had heard Mr.Chiffinch relate before, as to the Jesuit plot to murder the King, and if need be, the Duke too, and to establish Catholic domination in England.
I went into a gallery in the Council room for a little, to confirm with my own eyes whether it were Dr.Titus Oates himself against whom I had knocked in Drury Lane; and it was the man without doubt, though he looked very different in his minister's dress.