-- `` On , Sir Edmund ! Bid the soldiers forward , and give the dotard the same choice that you give all his countrymen -- to stand aside or be trampled on . '' `` Nay , nay ! Let us show respect to the good grandsire , '' said Bullivant , laughing . `` See you not he is some old round-headed dignitary who hath lain asleep these thirty years and knows nothing of the change of times ? Doubtless he thinks to put us down with a proclamation in Old Noll 's name . '' `` Are you mad , old man ? '' demanded Sir Edmund Andros , in loud and harsh tones . `` How dare you stay the march of King James 's governor ? '' `` I have stayed the march of a king himself ere now , '' replied the gray figure , with stern composure . `` I am here , Sir Governor , because the cry of an oppressed people hath disturbed me in my secret place , and , beseeching this favor earnestly of the Lord , it was vouchsafed me to appear once again on earth in the good old cause of his saints . And what speak ye of James ? There is no longer a popish tyrant on the throne of England , and by to-morrow noon his name shall be a by-word in this very street , where ye would make it a word of terror . Back , thou that wast a governor , back ! With this night thy power is ended . To-morrow , the prison ! Back , lest I foretell the scaffold ! '' The people had been drawing nearer and nearer and drinking in the words of their champion , who spoke in accents long disused , like one unaccustomed to converse except with the dead of many years ago . But his voice stirred their souls . They confronted the soldiers , not wholly without arms and ready to convert the very stones of the street into deadly weapons .
Sir Edmund Andros looked at the old man ; then he cast his hard and cruel eye over the multitude and beheld them burning XXXXX that lurid wrath so difficult to kindle or to quench , and again he fixed his gaze on the aged form which stood obscurely in an open space where neither friend nor foe had thrust himself .
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