“Thank you, Mr. Oakshott,” said the prisoner, as it was intimated that Mr. Cowper had finished. “You bear witness that only the most innocent civility ever passed between your brother and my poor young wife?”
“Certainly,” responded Robert.
“Nothing that could cause serious resentment, if it excited passing annoyance.”
“Nothing.”
“What were your brother’s political opinions?”
“Well”—with some slow consideration—“he admired the Queen as was, and could not abide the Prince of Orange. My father was always at him for it.”
“Would you think him likely to be an emissary to Holland?”
“No one less likely.”
But Mr. Cowper started up. “Sir, I believe you are the younger brother?”
“Yes.”