The author has a Doctor Ames visit Sarah in prison and he tells her to
tell Thomas "Tell him that I and a few others are friends to your
father. And tell him that we will do our level best to help him. Did
you hear me, Sarah? Tell him we will do our 'level' best."
A few pages later Sarah after being sick remembers that she hadn't
told her father & discusses it with young Tom & he had passed the
message on. Old Tom told young Tom that "Dr. Ames and his fellows
were New Levellers".
That's just a brief synopsis of it but it just seemed odd that she
would bother to mention it unless she had dug up some tidbit in her
research for the book but not enough to enlarge upon.
Just something to cogitate over.
Neal
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Nicole Price <nicole.price(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I want to get the book... I've just been slammed with other
projects and
work things in the meanwhile. What mention of the Levellers does the author
make? Also, why would she mention it if she didn't at least want to infer
the connection? There is no hard proof, so I guess she can't make a solid
tie, but can definitely imply it at any rate...
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Neal Carrier <nfcarrier(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Nicole,
> I don't know if you have or intend to read this book but the author
> mentions the Levellers twice but doesn't really tie Thomas in to the
> subject.
> Just thought it was very strange after all the discussion we've had about
> this.
> Wonder where she got this idea?
> Neal
>