take the heart out of the Whigs for twenty years to come. They have a lawyer coming from London whose wig is more to be feared than our helmets. He will slay more men in a day than a troop of horse in a ten-mile chase,Drew Doughty Tröjor. Faith! I would sooner they took this butcher-work into their own hands. See those bodies on yonder tree. It is an evil season when such acorns grow upon English oaks,Artem Anisimov Tröjor.’
‘It is an evil season,’ said I, ‘when men who call themselves Christians inflict such vengeance upon poor simple peasants,Jesse Puljujarvi Tröjor, who have done no more than their conscience urged them. That the leaders and officers should suffer is but fair. They stood to win in case of success, and should pay forfeit now that they have lost. But it goes to my heart to see those poor godly country folk so treated.’
‘Aye, there is truth in that,Cam Ward Tröjor,’ said the sergeant. ‘Now if it were some of these snuffle-nosed preachers, the old lank-haired bell-wethers who have led their flocks to the devil, it would be another thing. Why can they not conform to the Church, and be plagued to them? It is good enough for the King, so surely it is good enough for them; or are their souls so delicate that they cannot satisfy themselves with that on which every honest Englishman thrives? The main road to Heaven is too common for them. They must needs have each a by-path of their own, and cry out against all who will not follow it.’
‘Why,Ben Bishop Tröjor,’ said I, ‘there are pious men of all creeds. If a man lead a life of virtue, what matter what he believes?
‘Let a man keep his virtue in his heart,’ quoth Sergeant Gredder. ‘Let him pack it deep in the knapsack of his soul. I suspect godliness which shows upon the surface, the snuffling talk, the rolling eyes,Nick Bjugstad Tröjor, the groaning and the hawking. It is like the forged money,NHL Mens St. Louis Blues Black Rink Warrior Pullover Hoodie, which can be told by its being more bright and more showy than the real.’
‘An apt comparison!’ said I. ‘But how comes it,Michael Ferland Tröjor, sergeant, that you have given attention to these matters? Unless they are much belied, the Royal Dragoons find other things to think of.’
‘I was one of Mackay’s foot,’ he answered shortly. ‘I have heard of him,’ said I. ‘A man, I believe, both of parts and of piety.’
‘That, indeed,Justin Abdelkader Tröjor, he is,Jonathan Toews Tröjor,’ cried Sergeant Gredder warmly. ‘He is a man stern and soldierly to the outer eye,Zemgus Girgensons Tröjor, but with the heart of a saint within him. I promise you there was little need of the strapado in his regiment,Antti Niemi Tröjor, for there was not a man who did not fear the look of sorrow in his Colonel’s eyes far more than he did the provost-marshal.’
During the whole of our long ride I found the worthy sergeant a true follower of the excellent Colonel Mackay, for he proved to be a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and of serious and thoughtful habit. As to the two troopers, they rode on either side of me as silent as statues; for the common dragoons of those days could but talk of wine and women, and were helpless and speechless when aught else was to the fore. When we at last rode into the little village of Gommatch, whic
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