But methinks it would be best to trust him." That night the conversation was again renewed.
"You see, Jacob," Harry said, "that it would be a serious matter, supposing what you think to be true, to intrust you with the secret.

I know not whether you are disposed toward king or Parliament, and to put the lives of many honorable gentlemen into the hands of one of whose real disposition I know little would be but a fool's trick." "You speak fairly, Roger," the boy said.

"Indeed, What I said to you was true.

I trouble my head in no Way as to the politics and squabbles of the present day; but I mean to rise some day, and there is no better way to rise than to be mixed up in a plot.

It is true that the rise may be to the gallows; but if one plays for high stakes, one must risk one's purse.