Chapter 15The royal barge then returned to the Tower, and John Ball was again the tenant of a dungeon."Oh, no, UncleI don't want to go. Alice has asked me to stay to supper."
FORE:When late the next morning a woman ran out of the house into the cow-stable, and told Reuben that his wife had given him a fine boy, he merely groaned and shook his head.
"Let his wife follow him!" repeated Calverley, looking at Oakley with unaffected astonishment; but instantly recollecting himself, he added"I don't know;" and again, after pausing a moment, continued"You, of course, do not mean to keep faith with that seditious monk?" looking with a scrutinizing glance at Oakley."I'll have wheat growing here in a twelvemonth!" he shouted."I wur passing this way, so thought I'd call in on the chance," said Reuben guiltily"I d?an't mind waiting."