, religious dissension and sectarian heat were in the very air. Outside, on the Castle Green,Shayne Corson Tröjor, the voices of preachers rose up like the drone of insects. Every waggon or barrel or chance provision case had been converted into a pulpit,Dame Moncler Cheverny, each with its own orator and little knot of eager hearkeners. Here was a russet-coated Taunton volunteer in jackboots and bandolier, holding forth on the justification by works. Further on a grenadier of the militia, with blazing red coat and white cross-belt, was deep in the mystery of the Trinity. In one or two places,Martin Hanzal Tröjor, where the rude pulpits were too near to each other, the sermons had changed into a hot discussion between the two preachers, in which the audience took part by hums or groans, each applauding the champion whose creed was most in accordance with his own. Through this wild scene,Chris Kelly Tröjor, made more striking by the ruddy flickering glare of the camp-fires, I picked my way with a weight at my heart,Alexander Mogilny Tröjor, for I felt how vain it must be to hope for success where such division reigned, Saxon looked on,Nike Kobe 9 Elite Damskie, however, with glistening eyes, and rubbed his hands with satisfaction.
‘The leaven is working,Michael Hutchinson Tröjor,’ quoth he. ‘Something will come of all this ferment.’
‘I see not what can come of it save disorder and weakness,’ I answered.
‘Good soldiers will come of it, lad,’ said he. ‘They are all sharpening themselves, each after his own fashion, on the whetstone of religion. This arguing breedeth fanatics, and fanatics are the stuff out of which conquerors are fashioned. Have you not heard how Old Noll’s army divided into Presbyterians, Independents, Ranters, Anabaptists, Fifth Monarchy men, Brownists, and a score of other sects, out of whose strife rose the finest regiments that ever formed line upon a field of battle?
“Such as do build their faith upon
The holy text of sword and gun.”
You know old Samuel’s couplet. I tell you,Joonas Donskoi Tröjor, I would rather see them thus employed than at their drill, for all their wrangling and jangling.’
‘But how of this split in the council?’ I asked,Derek Stepan Tröjor.
‘Ah, that is indeed a graver matter. All creeds may be welded together, but the Puritan and the scoffer are like oil and water. Yet the Puritan is the oil, for he will be ever atop. These courtiers do but stand for themselves, while the others are backed up by the pith and marrow of the army. It is well that we are afoot tomorrow. The King’s troops are, I hear,Paul Martin Tröjor, pouring across Salisbury Plain, but their ordnance and stores are delaying them, for they know well that they must bring all they need,Todd Bertuzzi Tröjor, since they can expect little from the goodwill of the country folk. Ah, friend Buyse, wie geht es?’
‘Ganz gut,’ said the big German,Dame Moncler Eulalia, looming up before us through the darkness. ‘But, sapperment, what a cawing and croaking, like a rookery at sunset! You English are a strange people — yes, donnerwetter, a very strange people! There are no two of you who think alike upon any subject under Himmel! The Cavalier will have his gay coat and his loose word. The Puritan will cut your throa
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