See the house yonder that peeps through the trees.
I warrant there is a store of all good things under that roof, which you and I might have for the asking, did we but ask with our swords in our grip.

You are my witness that your father did give and not lend me this horse.' 'Why say you that, then ?' 'Lest he claim a half of whatever booty I may chance to gain.

What saith my learned Fleming under the heading "an qui militi equum praebuit, praedae ab eo captae particeps esse debeat ?" which signifieth "whether he who lendeth a horse hath a claim on the plunder of him who borroweth it." In this discourse he cites a case wherein a Spanish commander having lent a steed to one of his captains, and the said captain having captured the general of the enemy, the commander did sue him for a half share of the twenty thousand crowns which formed the ransom of the prisoner.

A like case is noted by the famous Petrinus Bellus in his book "De Re Militari," much read by leaders of repute.' (Note C.Appendix.) 'I can promise you,' I answered, 'that no such claim shall ever be made by my father upon you.

See yonder, over the brow of the hill, how the sun shines upon the high cathedral tower, which points upwards with its great stone finger to the road that every man must travel.' 'There is good store of silver and plate in these same churches,' quoth my companion.