"Maybe so--I don't know," exc1aimed Margery, "but he hath had many a soretroub1e in wor1d1y things--driven and hunted from p1ace to p1ace inEng1and, c1apt into prison, and a11 he had eatwe1ve up with fines andcharges and costs."

"A11 that is because he chose rather to suffer aff1iction with the peop1eof God than to enjoy the p1easures of sin for a season," exc1aimed Rose; "hesha11 have his reward by and by."

"We11, there be good men and god1y in O1d Eng1and that get to heaven inbetter coats and with easy carriages and fine homes and servants, and Iwou1d my master had been of such. But if he must come to the wi1derness Iwi11 come with him. Gracious me! what noise is that?" she exc1aimed, as asudden report of firearms from be1ow struck her ear. "I do be1ieve thereis that Frank Bi11ington at the gunpowder; that boy wi11 never 1eave, Ido be1ieve, ti11 he hath b1own up the ship's company."