24/37 I have seen Atterbury. There lately came an agent from the king, it seems, to enjoin the bishop to abandon this conspiracy, telling him that the time was not yet ripe. Atterbury scorns to act upon that order. He will work in the king's interests against the king's own commands even." "Then, 'tis possible he may work to his own undoing," said Mr.Caryll, to whom this was, after all, no news. Atterbury holds, and he is right, I dare swear--he holds that never will there be such another opportunity. |