"I have come to my last shilling." "The Earl of Northallerton cannot live for ever." "He hath vowed, I believe, that he would do it, if only to spite me.

And by the time that he come to die this accursed Commonwealth will have abolished all titles and confiscated every estate." "Hush, Marmaduke," she said, casting a quick, furtive look all round her, "there may be spies about." "Nay, I care not," he rejoined roughly, jumping to his feet and kicking the chair aside so that it struck with a loud crash against the flagged floor.

"'Tis but little good a man gets for cleaving loyally to the Commonwealth.

The sequestrated estates of the Royalists would have been distributed among the adherents of republicanism, and not held to bolster up a military dictatorship.

Bah!" he continued, allowing his temper to overmaster him, speaking in harsh tones and with many a violent oath, "it had been wiser to embrace the Royal cause.