I knocked at your inner one, as I should have knocked at the poorest cottager's in the parish, because I found it open.

You have two Jesuits here, sir! and here is the queen's warrant for apprehending them.

I have signed it with my own hand, and, moreover, serve it now, with my own hand, in order to save you scandal--and it may be, worse.

I must have these men, Mr.Leigh." "My dear Sir Richard--!" "I must have them, or I must search the house; and you would not put either yourself or me to so shameful a necessity ?" "My dear Sir Richard!--" "Must I, then, ask you to stand back from your own doorway, my dear sir ?" said Grenville.

And then changing his voice to that fearful lion's roar, for which he was famous, and which it seemed impossible that lips so delicate could utter, he thundered, "Knaves, behind there! Back!" This was spoken to half-a-dozen grooms and serving-men, who, well armed, were clustered in the passage.
"What?
swords out, you sons of cliff rabbits ?" And in a moment, Sir Richard's long blade flashed out also, and putting Mr.Leigh gently aside, as if he had been a child, he walked up to the party, who vanished right and left; having expected a cur dog, in the shape of a parish constable, and come upon a lion instead.