Oliver Cromwell by John Drinkwater
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I think not.
_Staines:_ Surely. _Pemberton:_ Could it be? _Fairfax:_ No. We should have heard. _Ireton:_ And yet it seems to be moving. _Fairfax:_ Gentlemen, we must keep counsel with ourselves. This is to waste. Nerves must be unclouded to-day. (He returns to his seat, the others with him.) _Fairfax:_ Finally, if we on the right have to fall back on Mill Hill, bring your horse down on to the Kilmarsh Road, Pemberton, if it be any way possible. _Pemberton:_ Yes--there's a ford there, at the fork if we are upstream. _Ireton:_ I'll speak to Whalley, too. |
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