Brave Bessie Westland

For gentle Dame Drayton to make such a long speech as this, made her husband open his eyes in silent amazement; but it was sufficient to convince him that she felt very strongly about the matter, and this was doubtless the Lords voice in her heart, or she would not thus have spoken. So after a minutes pause he said, “I will see what Friend Briggs thinks of thy word, and if he wills to take the three children he will natheless tell me. If not, I will fetch them hither at sundown.”...FROM THE BOOKS.