St. George and St. Michael. Volume II

So things looked ill for the puritans in general, and Richard / Heywood had his full portion in the distribution of the evils / allotted them. Following lord Fairfax, he had shared his defeat by / the marquis of Newcastle on Atherton moor, where of his score of men / he lost five, and was, along with his mare, pretty severely wounded. / Hence it had become absolutely necessary for both of them, if they / were to render good service at any near future, that they should / have rest and tending. Towards the middle of July, therefore, / Richard, followed by Stopchase, and several others of his men who / had also been wounded and were in need of nursing, rode up to his / father's door. Lady was taken off to her own stall, and Richard was / led into the house by his father -- without a word of tenderness, but / with eyes and hands that waited and tended like those of a mother.

Roger Heywood was troubled in heart at the aspect of affairs. There / was now a strong peace-party in the parliament, and to him peace and / ruin seemed the same thing. If the parliament should now listen to / overtures of accommodation, all for which he and those with whom he / chiefly sympathised had striven, was in the greatest peril, and / might be, if not irrecoverably lost, at least lost sight of, perhaps / for a century. The thing that mainly comforted him in his anxiety / was that his son had showed himself worthy, not merely in the matter / of personal courage, which he took as a thing of course in a / Heywood, but in his understanding of and spiritual relation to the / questions really at issue, -- not those only which filled the mouths / of men. For the best men and the weightiest questions are never seen / in the forefront of the battle of their time, save by "larger other / eyes than ours."