text: " I started up and said in great agitation--"Oh my lady!"--but had not proceeded further when I was broken in upon by a voice of thunder-- "Silence I say! What is it for the frailness of a reed like you that such noble enterprise must perish? Make no remonstrance sir but do what is needed or"---- Although the great lady did not finish her words I felt an assurance steal like ice over my soul that my hours were numbered if I hesitated and I bowed low while Mr William Snowton did privily pull me down into my seat by the hinder parts of my cassock