"
"And have you learnt no further?"
"If you were here to teach me, sir, I would soon learn it," said the
little witch, but she did not come over him as she did with most
people.
"You have as good an instructor as I for your needs, in this discreet
maiden," said Dr. Eales, and as something of a pout descended on the
sparkling little face, "when you know all the answers, perchance
Steadfast here may bring you to my lodgings and I will hear you."
"I could learn them myself if I had the book," said Emlyn.
The fact being that the Catechism was taught by Patience from memory
in those winter evenings when all went to bed to save candle light,
but that when Steadfast retired to the cow-house, Emlyn either
insisted on playing with the others or pretended to go to sleep; and
twitted Patience with being a Puritan. However, the hopes of going
into Bristol might be an incentive, though she indulged in a grumble
to Rusha, and declared that she liked a jolly chaplain, and this old
doctor was not a bit better than a mere Puritan.
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