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`` I have stayed the march of a king himself ere now , '' replied the gray figure , with stern composure . `` I am here , Sir Governor , because the cry of an oppressed people hath disturbed me in my secret place , and , beseeching this favor earnestly of the Lord , it was vouchsafed me to appear once again on earth in the good old cause of his saints . And what speak ye of James ? There is no longer a popish tyrant on the throne of England , and by to-morrow noon his name shall be a by-word in this very street , where ye would make it a word of terror . Back , thou that wast a governor , back ! With this night thy power is ended . To-morrow , the prison !