["Rupert stood still, and bowed gravely."]
["Three ominous-looking papers."]
["'Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and the King of Glory shall come in.'"]
BOOK I
The Hour and The Man
"Unknown to Cromwell as to me,
Was Cromwell's measure or degree.
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He works, plots, fights, in rude affairs,
With 'squires, lords, kings, his craft compares,
Till late he learned, through doubt and fear,
Broad England harbored not his peer."
—Emerson.
The Lion's Whelp
CHAPTER I
SWAFFHAM AND DE WICK
"Sway the tide of battle which way it will, human existence is held together by its old, and only tenure of earnest thoughts, and quiet affections."