The action is
like to move to the left.
_Fairfax:_
Yes. There's a high hedge above there below Sulby. It would be useful to
us then.
_Staines:_
It has been marked, and dug almost to the waterside.
_Fairfax:_
Good. Skippon and myself with the infantry there and there. Then the
cavalry--you have one wing, Ireton, or you must command all, since
General Cromwell is not come.
_Pemberton:_
Is there any word of him?
_Fairfax:_
None.
_Staines:_
They do not consider us at Westminster.
_Ireton:_
It is disastrous of them to hesitate so. They do not understand.
_Fairfax:_
No. I have told them that to-day is to be made the fiercest trial of
all, but they do not listen.
_Pemberton:_
Where is General Cromwell?
_Fairfax:_
None knows. These months he has been up and down the land, exhorting,
stirring up opinion, watching the discipline of our new armies, lending
his personal authority in bringing men's minds to the cause. But to-day
we need him here. He should have been sent. We need him.
_Ireton:_
Urgently. Charles and Rupert are staking all on this.
_Staines:_
They were never in better tune. It is as though every man were picked.
_Fairfax:_
I said this to Westminster.
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