Why did you suffer this Frenchman or your dead son, or both of them, to try to burn out Hugh de Cressi and Red Eve as though they were rats in rubbish ?" "Would you know, Father?
Then I'll tell you.

Because I wish to see my daughter set high among lords and princes and not the wife of a merchant's lad, who by law may wear cloth only and rabbit fur.

Because, also, I hate him and all his kin, and if this is true of yesterday, how much more true is it now that he has killed my son, and by the arrows of that wolf-man who dogs his heels, slain my guests and my grieve.

Think not I'll rest till I have vengeance of him and all his cursed House.
I'll appeal to the King, and if he will not give me justice I'll take it for myself.

Ay, though you are old, I tell you you shall live to see the de Cressi vault crowded with the de Cressi dead." Sir Andrew hid his eyes for a moment with his hand, then let it fall and spoke in a changed voice.
"It comes upon me that you speak truth, Sir John, for since I met a certain great Master in the East, at times I have a gift of foresight.
I think that much sorrow draws near this land; ay, and others.