He is at this moment below giving instructions and receiving
reports of the stoppage of all the country works, but if you
like I will bring him up here, we shall be less disturbed."
"By all means," said Hatton who seemed to apprehend that
Morley would make some difficulties. "By all means."
"Stop;" said Morley. "have you seen Gerard?"
"No," said Field. "I wrote to him some time back, but his
reply was not encouraging. I thought his spirit was perhaps
broken."
"You know that he is here?"
"I concluded so, but we have not seen him; though to be sure,
we have seen so many, and done so much since our arrival
yesterday, it is not wonderful. By the bye, who is this
blackcoat you have here, this St Lys? We took possession of
the church yesterday on our arrival, for it's a sort of thing
that pleases the miners and colliers wonderfully, and I always
humour them. This St Lys preached us such a sermon that I was
almost afraid at one time the game would be spoiled. Our
great man was alarmingly taken by it, was saying his prayers
all day and had nearly marched back again: had it not been for
the excellence of the rum and water at our quarters, the
champion of the Charter would have proved a pious recreant.
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