How could he help loving you ?" and once more she clasped her in her arms.
"Where is he--where is Robert ?" Rebecca started at the question, and an expression of pain swept over her face, which alarmed Ester.
"Alas, he is gone.

He hath fled with Bacon, and I fear that you have escaped from one calamity only to fall into another." Then she explained the distracted condition of the country, concluding with: "You must not be known here as Ester Goffe.

Were it known by Sir William Berkeley, or even my mother's husband, that the child of a regicide was here, I know not what the result would be; but, alas, I fear it would be your ruin." "But can I see him ?" asked Ester.
"Who, Sir William Berkeley or Mr.Hugh Price ?" "Robert." A pallor overspread the sister's face at this request, and she answered that she knew not how they could communicate with him.
"Have you no faithful servant ?" There was old black Sam who had always been faithful.

Usually the negroes were cunning as well as treacherous, for, having been but recently brought from Africa, they had much of the heathen still in their natures; but old black Sam had been faithful to the brother through all trying scenes and adversities, and, though he dared not "cross Master Price," he secretly aided Rebecca in many small schemes objectionable to the stepfather.

Sam was summoned, and Rebecca asked: "Sam, could you find my brother ?" "I doan know, misse; but I believe old black Sam could." "Would you take a small bit of writing to him ?" "If misse want um to go, ole black Sam, him try.