"He knew all about the affair. Kings and Priests! Kings and Priests! they would trick the world away, were it not that now and then some brave yeoman were a match for them."
"And Prince Rupert?"
"Neck deep. That was fortunate, for he is a luckless blackguard, and dooms all he touches."
"If a man is unfortunate, he is not therefore wicked, Doctor. These men were plotting for what they believed a good end," said Matilda with some temper.
"Good ends never need assassination, my lady; if evil is done, evil will come from it."
"I think we ought to pity the men."
"Pity them, indeed! Not I! The scaffold and the halter is their just reward."
"Forty, I heard, were arrested."
"Cromwell had only three brought to trial. Gerard was beheaded, Vowell hung, Fox threw himself on Cromwell's mercy and was pardoned."
"Was not that too much leniency?"