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But shaking himself, like an awakened lion, he sprang forward,
and pushing aside the impediments of the barrier, as if they had been
feathers, he rushed up the ascent with an impetuosity which proved how
formidable a sluggish nature may become, when thoroughly aroused.

CHAPTER XIV
Whose party do the townsmen yet admit?
--King John.
In order to preserve an even pace between the incidents of the tale,
it becomes necessary to revert to such events as occurred during the
ward of Ellen Wade.
For the few first hours, the cares of the honest and warm-hearted girl
were confined to the simple offices of satisfying the often-repeated
demands which her younger associates made on her time and patience,
under the pretences of hunger, thirst, and all the other ceaseless
wants of captious and inconsiderate childhood. She had seized a moment
from their importunities to steal into the tent, where she was
administering to the comforts of one far more deserving of her
tenderness, when an outcry among the children recalled her to the
duties she had momentarily forgotten.


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