Four dead and two wounded, that's the bill I must discharge as best I may.

Doubtless too soon there will be more to follow, whether they be Claverings or de Cressis.

Well, we must take things as God sends them, and leave Him to balance the account.
"But there is no time to lose if Hugh's neck is to escape a halter.
Speak you, Father Andrew, who are wise and old, and have this matter in hand.

Oh! Hugh, Hugh, you were born a fighter, not a merchant like your brethren," and he pointed to three young men who all this while had stood silently behind him looking upon their youngest brother with grave disapproval.

"Yes, the old Norman blood comes out in you, and the Norman mail suits you well," he added with a flash of pride, "and so there's an end--or a beginning.