text:  Colonel Lyle--for such became his rank in the Parliamentary army--was a man of firm adherence to his principles; and although a cold hard man in all things but his affection for his adopted son too earnest and eager a supporter of the party for which he battled to allow such a proselyte to what he considered the just and upright cause--such a follower in his own footsteps as his nephew--to escape him on account of any family considerations which he stigmatized as "prejudices to be despised and set at nought in so holy a matter