So they all went their several ways homeward in a wildness of wind and rain.
The Royal Standard faced the gusty tempests for six days, then the pole snapped and the storm hurled it in the dust.
PART II
THE MAN
"A larger soul, I think, hath seldom dwelt in a house of clay."—A Contemporary on Oliver Cromwell.
CHAPTER I
A LEADER OF MEN
John Pym was dead.