I am but a simple knight commander of the Order, and my name would scarce be known beyond its ranks.

But to be knighted by one whose name is known and honoured throughout Europe would give them a standing wherever they went, and place them on a level with the best." "If that is your opinion, Boswell, I will myself undertake it, and will do it at once; it were better done here than at a conclave of the Order--now, when they are fresh from the battle.

Let the knights be summoned from the other galleys at once." In a few minutes the whole of the knights were assembled on the poop of the galley.
"Friends, and brother knights," D'Aubusson said.

"First, in the name of the Order, I have to thank you all most heartily for the brave deeds that you have performed, and for the fresh honour you have won for it.
Every man has, as I learn from the three commanders, borne himself as a true and valiant knight, ready to give his life in the cause of the Order and of humanity.

Two names have been specially brought before me by commander Ricord, and by the good knight Sir John Boswell; they are those of two young companions who, though knights of our Order, have not yet received secular knighthood, and this, in the opinion of these two knights, they have right worthily won.