Here and there a wide blackened tract showed where, from carelessness or malice, a brand had been thrown into the standing corn.
"The Danes are ever the same," Edmund said.

"Well may they be called the sea-wolves.

It would be bad enough did they only plunder and kill those who oppose them; but they destroy from the pure love of destroying, and slay for the pleasure of slaying.

Why are these robbers permitted to be the scourge of Europe ?" "Why indeed ?" the Genoese repeated when the interpreter had translated Edmund's exclamation to him.

"'Tis shame and disgrace that Christendom does not unite against them.