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Show 97 Jane demanded of Samuel. "Bishop Laud just asked father... never mind what he just asked," said Samuel as"he looked into the anxious eyes of his mother. "Now he's asking father if he's a minister..." Lathrop's eyes held to Laud, but he spoke not a word in answer, finding Laud's tone and pious demeanor increasingly reprehensible. "Are you a minister?" asked Archbishop Abbot when Lathrop failed to answer the question posed by Laud. Clearing his throat to give indication that he wished to speak, the Bishop of St. David's addressed Lathrop. "Were not you Doctor King, the Bishop of London's Sizer in Oxford?" Lathrop nodded, recalling the time he had been given that important position at Oxford. "I thought your father was a graduate of Cambridge?" the stranger said to Samuel. "He has his master's degree from Cambridge, but he did attend Oxford for awhile." The lordly white-haired Bishop of St. David's drew himself up to full stature and spoke scornfully. "And you show your thankfulness by this!" Even Samuel recoiled at the Bishop's tone. Sensing the affect the Bishop's words were having on Samuel, the man holding Samuel tugged on his pantlegs. "It's a ploy, Samuel, to make your father out to be a renegade...it's one thing to espouse the |
