Three soldiers
were quartered upon her at the Wheatsheaf, and though, on the whole,
they were more civil and much less riotous than some of her Cavalier
lodgers had been, she was always in dread of their taking offence at
the doctor and hauling him off to gaol.
Steadfast confided to her Patience's commission, which she undertook
to execute herself. It included a spinning-wheel, for Patience was
determined to teach Emlyn to spin, an art of which no respectable
woman from the Queen downwards was ignorant in those days. As to
finding his brother, the best way would be to ask the soldiers who
were smoking in the kitchen where he was likely to be.
They said that the faithful and valiant Jephthah Kenton of Venn's
horse would be found somewhere about the great steeple house,
profanely called the Cathedral, for there the troops were quartered;
and thither accordingly Stead betook himself, starting as he saw
horses gearing or being groomed on the sward in the close which had
always been kept in such perfect order.
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