THREE:"The freeman shall be righted, and the bondman freedand then will the mission that has made John Ball for thrice twelve months a homeless wanderer, never resting under the same roof a second nightthen will that mission be accomplishedand even if he lay his head upon the block, he will have executed the task allotted to himwill have finished the work he was inspired to begin!"
THREE:"Of course I love youbut it doesn't follow I want to belong to you. Can't we go on as we are?"
THREE:"Oh, stop it, Ben! can't you see you're spoiling my dress? Why should you get in such a taking? You've had children before, and they've all been failuresI expect this one will only be like the rest."Oakley stepped back from the window, and stood an instant apparently irresolute. "Plague on this Holgrave!" he muttered"I wish I had sent Harvey; he could have managed it as well as I; but one don't like giving these fellows half the profit, besides making them as wise as one's self;but what is the knave to me?" And then, as if his slight scruples were dissipated by the consideration of the little sympathy that ought to exist between one circumstanced like Holgrave and himself, he drew his hat more over his brow, and folding his cloak closer around him, approached, although, it must be admitted, with rather an indecisive step, the door of the cottage, and gave a slight tap. "I will go to the door, Stephen," he heard Margaret say, with a quickness which seemed to imply that the simple circumstance of a summons to the door at a somewhat late hour was sufficient to awaken her fears.
