"Surely the world will not miss a chapman's son!" "The de Cressis are my kin, although I hate them, Sir Edmund.

Also they are rich and powerful, and have many friends in high places.

If this young man died by my command it would start a blood feud of which none can tell the end, for, after all, he is nobly born." "Then, Sir John, he shall die by mine.

No, not at my own hands, since I do not fight with traders.

But I have those about me who are pretty swordsmen and know how to pick a quarrel.