Let them do so.

Catharine will love me the better that I have preferred the paths of peace to those of bloodshed, and Father Clement shall teach us to pity and forgive the world, which will load us with reproaches that wound not.

I shall be the happiest of men; Catharine will enjoy all that unbounded affection can confer upon her, and will be freed from apprehension of the sights and sounds of horror which your ill assorted match would have prepared for her; and you, father Glover, shall occupy your chimney corner, the happiest and most honoured man that ever--" "Hold, Eachin--I prithee, hold," said the glover; "the fir light, with which this discourse must terminate, burns very low, and I would speak a word in my turn, and plain dealing is best.

Though it may vex, or perhaps enrage, you, let me end these visions by saying at once: Catharine can never be yours.

A glove is the emblem of faith, and a man of my craft should therefore less than any other break his own.
Catharine's hand is promised--promised to a man whom you may hate, but whom you must honour--to Henry the armourer.