Part 39 (2/2)
Tell me, have you seen Mr Crosby since he fled from Lenfield?”
”And you threatened to have irl ”No, I have not seen hiht of, not the whipping, you witch”
”Now, tell irl
”She is a wouardian would have her do It is the usual way of wore to direct your actions and you loved me, he would be certain to have some other lover for you and would hate h she does not like uardian I would--”
He stopped suddenly There were footsteps in the passage, and Harriet slipped fro sedately at a little distance froe Marriott is asking to see you,him in” Then, as the servant departed, he turned to Harriet: ”Come this way, into this other room”
”Your room!” she exclaimed ”I would not have anyone find me here”
”No one shall enter unless they kill me first upon the threshold Have no fear You could not leave the house unseen by Judge Marriott, and I would not have him see you for the world He is foul-mouthed and foul-minded Let the curtain fall close, so, to keep from you as much of his conversation as possible”
Lord Rosuest as the door opened
”This assize workyou had arrived, a longing came over me to drink a bottle with you”
”You are welco at your door had you not come”
”Good! Then we may have an hour's peace The town's astir, Ross in Dorchester Do you hear what that wag Jeffreys has done? He has had the court hung with scarlet to mark the occasion He does not mean his lesson to die quickly out of the memory”
”That is what they mean, then, by 'bloody assizes' I heard the name whispered as I entered the town”
”Oh, they were quick enough to see that this was no ordinary dispensation of law,” laughed Marriott ”The dogs are sleepless and treht, I warrant”
”Aye, it is certainly the King's turn now, and I would he were lutton you are, Rosmore There are over three hundred prisoners in Dorchester alone”
”And ht be released,” was the answer ”Such cle” than will be accoeful spirit”
”Since when have you turned sentimental?”
”I think I was born with a horror of wholesale injustice”
Marriott laughed, then grew serious
”We are old friends, Roser in free speech between us, but it would not be wise to say such things in the hearing of Jeffreys”
”Even Jeffreys may have a weak spot to touch which would be to compel him to silence Most men have”
”They hide it successfully as a rule”
”Or think so,” said Rosst these three hundred prisoners are there any of ied his shoulders