And when Martin Holt had inveighed against the practice with all a Puritan's vehemence, Cuthbert had cordially agreed, and had thus drawn as it were one step nearer the side of the great coming controversy which his uncle had embraced.
These expeditions together had naturally drawn the cousins into closer bonds of intimacy.

Cherry felt privileged to ask questions of Cuthbert almost at will, and he had no wish to hide anything from her.
"I will tell thee that adventure some day when we are alone," he answered.

"I have often longed to share the tale with thee, but we have had so much else to speak of.

I was taken prisoner by the robbers, and conveyed to a ruined mill, where some of their comrades and some wild gipsies dwell, as I take it, for the greater part of the inclement winter.

I thought my end had surely come when first I saw the fierce faces round me; but there was one who called herself their queen, and who made them quit their evil purpose.