"Goffe."
"What know you of Goffe, pray?"
"I have heard of him. My mother's husband frequently spoke of him as a regicide."
The swordsman gazed on him for a moment, and asked:
"Do you know what a regicide is?"
"A king-killer."
"Well, my young cavalier, when a king has been convicted of treason, should he not suffer death as the humblest peasant in the land?"
"He should," cried Robert, on whose republican soul the argument fell with a delightful sensation. "A king is but a man and no better than the poorest in the realm."
"Ha! young cavalier from Virginia, dare you utter those words in your own colony?"
"No; I left my colony because I could not abide there."