“Those of Warwickshire.”
“Ha! Malignants—Malignants:—Sir Oliver was one of them: a staunch slave of that foolish and misguided man, Charles Stuart.”
“My father, sir, was a faithful subject of King Charles.”
“And you, woman——”
“I obey the laws. By my sex and by my sorrows I have been taught thankfulness for any government that brings peace.”
“Out of thine own mouth is thy rebel cousin condemned. How came it that all his relations were not instantly arrested? But thus it is. Thus am I served by indolent and purblind knaves—the serpent and the woman;—thus it ever was, and will be, the boldest treasons are ever hatched by women. Where dost thou live?”
“At Cottesmore, in Gloucestershire.”
“How long have you dwelt there, and with whom?”
“Since the death of my father, I have lived in the family of an ejected minister, named Juxon, a nephew of the bishop.”