The messenger had heardfor state secrets will sometimes transpirethat the chancellor had a struggle to obtain the writ; and this knowledge, though it made him the more readily credit Calverley's assertion, yet vexed him that his master should be foiled. Looking, therefore, with a surly scrutiny at the steward"Not with such traitors and rebels as ye, with whomever else I may hold!" returned the man."Oh, f?ather, if only you'll do anything fur us, we'll bless you all our lives."
